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...Program is a spin in the Roman pool. As you bask in the hot, healing waters, a gentleman technician offers cups of dietetic lemonade. Your poolmate, a balding man in his 50s, introduces himself. La Costa tones up such famous figures as Rod Steiger, Ambassador John Lodge, NBC President Julian Goodman. Gore Vidal, Kirk Douglas, Senator Jacob Javits, Sandy Koufax, President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz of Mexico-and you end up in the stew with a paint salesman from Poughkeepsie. "They really pamper you," he says, as a gentleman technician dries his back. "It's just one joy after another...
...opening-night audience sat in stunned silence, then broke into shouts of enthusiasm. They called for Composer Floyd and for Director Frank Corsaro. With Baritone Julian Patrick as George, Tenor Robert Moulson as the doomed half-wit Lennie, and Soprano Carol Bayard as the ranch-house temptress who teases Lennie once too often, Of Mice and Men seems uniquely American. Like Steinbeck's depression-depressed characters, Floyd's opera has calluses on its hands and hot blood in its heart. It will probably be around a long time...
...UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY by Julian Mitchell. 307 pages. Grove...
...Julian Mitchell's tricky new novel is about two sensitive, well-educated Englishmen who have widely varying difficulties trying to establish diplomatic relations with their demons and angels. For Charles Humphries, the attempt results in apathy and a self-destructive critical reflex. For Charles' oldest and dearest friend, the process produces The Undiscovered Country itself. The narrator of the novel is not only called Julian Mitchell but bears his real-life social, academic and professional credentials as well...
...character, offers a fluent memoir about his friendship with Charles. It begins in an English boarding school in the mid-'40s and ends with Charles' apparent suicide in the mid-'60s. This is the Age of Anxiety's baroque period, and Charles and Julian experience many of its significant furbelows: postwar empiricism at Oxford and Cambridge, uneventful military service, the California beat scene and damp marches through England for nuclear disarmament...