Word: honorable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Capable of Honor, Drury...
...cocktails, soup, lamb chops, vegetables and dessert-that when it was over and the table cleared, he began signaling indignantly to the waiter to demand: "When are we going to get our lunch?" He had only a minimal interest in food and drink. Once, for a lunch in his honor at Le Berkeley restaurant in Paris, the maître d'hôtel outdid himself with a magnificent souffle. Harry was first to dig into the souffle, then stopped his laden fork in mid-air to expound some point that lasted for 20 minutes, while the souffle sagged...
...others who consort to slow the pace are the butler (Prentice Claflin). Doctor Finache (David Wilkinson), and Antoinette the cook (Honor Moore). Claflin ranges about the stage, making himself disagreeable to the other characters and to us. Feydeau devoted at least several tablespoons of wit to the part, and Claflin ought to do better. Wilkinson's failure is difficult to explain. Physically he is suited to the part of an aging man of science and affair who still has an eye for the chorines. Unfortunately he is always a step or so behind the action, looking on but stepping aside...
...woods: The Larries will be fourth or fifth; the Golden Knights sixth. Brown found a powerful first line and put on a strong last-season surge that will lift it to the .500 level and the tourney's seventh spot, unless Dartmouth pulls a miracle tonight to honor is departing coach Eddie Jeremiah. That leaves only the eight spot. If Harvard beats Yale in the 8:30 p.m. game at New Haven, the Crimson will get that spot and will play against B.U. in the Arena Tuesday night. If Harvard loses, the nod will go to Northeastern, which has three...
When the time comes for the historian to get the sense of what life was like for the British between and during the two big wars, he will be better off turning to fiction than to journalism. Evelyn Waugh's Sword of Honor trilogy will serve for a start. For a finish, he can wrap up the whole era with Anthony Powell's incalculably brilliant series, The Music of Time. In The Soldier's Art, the eighth novel in this marathon enterprise,* Powell, now 61, brings his narrator hero, Nick Jenkins, into his second year of World...