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...Tunnel of Love (by Joseph Fields and Peter DeVries; based on DeVries' novel) suggests at the outset a satiric cannonade on that citadel of Exurbanites and seacoast bohemia, Westport, Conn. But it soon abandons anything so highbrow and becomes an illustrated jokebook on styles in childbearing. When married women aren't having children, unmarried ones are; or couples are adopting; or the sins of the fathers become the adoptees of their wives...
...younger brother John, now 28 and an instructor in American civilization at Brandeis University, off to bed. But Charlie never stood in awe of the guests. "They were like a bunch of uncles to him," says Fadiman. As a tot, Charlie played with Philosopher Adler at a highbrow game of "neologizing" (inventing words in sentences to sound like a foreign language). As a youth, he played word games with Cornwall Neighbor James Thurber, who was so taken with Van Doren's acting skill ten years ago as the lead in an amateur production of The Male Animal that...
...against an age of prudery. Compared to his friend Dickens, the English writing colossus of the century, Collins was a minor Victorian, but in the sense that Marlowe is a minor Elizabethan alongside Shakespeare. He was the best of the secondbest, and his growing status as "must" reading for highbrow novelists has been signalized by a T. S. Eliot essay. This biography by Nuel Pharr Davis, a University of Illinois English instructor, is intellectually skimpy, but as a personal history of Collins it is thorough, which may be just as well: Collins' life was no less intriguing than...
...certain position to lead the Christian Democratic Party once Adenauer retires or dies. A tense, chain-smoking bachelor of solemn mien, Brentano is the scion of a Frankfurt family that for two centuries has produced philosophers and professors. He is a connoisseur of wines, a lover of highbrow talk, collector of old silver and old furniture. He distrusts political eloquence, is an indifferent orator himself, although a good lawyerlike diplomat and bargainer. Although Brentano is one of the founders of the C.D.U. party in Hesse, he lacks the organized political following that some CDUers have, may never...
...will put on a nighttime version of Omnibus, the best of the highbrow shows, which moved over from CBS. Programs include a re-creation of the Battle of Gettysburg as directed by Delbert (Marty) Mann and a look at the history of U.S. musical comedy through the eyes, ears and expressive hands of Leonard Bernstein. Disneyland will document "The Great Cat Family" with an all-animated cartoon, make a study of the atom and recount man's efforts to fly. Disney will also launch a TV spectacular called Johnny Tremain, about "events leading up to the American Revolution." Afternoon...