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Fritz's hobby seems to have been small boys. He transformed a Capri grotto into a scented Sodom, where attendants wore the habit of Franciscan friars and skyrockets were fired to celebrate orgasms. Photographs were taken and circulated. Eventually, reports of the goings on were published in the press. Kaiser Wilhelm rushed to the support of Fritz. But the scandal was too much, and Fritz committed suicide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Blood and Irony | 12/20/1968 | See Source »

Preaching love and life as a habit, grooving on martyrdom, intensity without discretion, without propriety...telling her to believe everything, telling...

Author: By Adele M. Rosen, | Title: A Trip Around With Kenneth Patchen's Mind | 12/17/1968 | See Source »

...Hospital in New York. In the central conversation between Plantagenet and the Doctor, Lowry plays the Doctor's practical, mindlessly psychologistic comments against Plantagenet's solipsism. At the same time, however, the Doctor's words serve as a kind of objective warning against the distortions implicit in Lowry's habit of creating only autobiographical characters...

Author: By William C. Bryson, | Title: Malcolm Lowry, 11 Years Dead, Is Pawing Through the Ashes of His One Great Work | 12/17/1968 | See Source »

Finian's Rainbow -- A heavyhanded, poorly acted film version of the musical, with nothing but the splendid score and the magnificent Fred Astaire to recommend it. The director, Francis Fred Coppola, has a bad habit of chopping people's hands and feet off; stars Petula Clark and Tommy Steele ought to act their age. At the SAXON, Tremont and Stuart...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Movies and Plays This Weekend | 12/13/1968 | See Source »

...Club. The typical Pompadour list was split into five areas (with such titles as "Chaos and Collapse" and "A Wing and a Prayer"), each in turn split among books "Recommended," "Critical," "Assumed," "Incidental," and "Basic." Professor Pompadour introduced many variations upon this theme, but the most successful was his habit of withdrawing all books from Widener at the start of each term, and relocating them to his home in greater Belmont...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DeLoon's Guide | 12/7/1968 | See Source »

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