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...HEAVEN, NEW EARTH by Kenelm Burridge. 191 pages. Schocken Books. $5.50. The vision of the millennium as a golden age of freedom and affluence is a quasi-religious phenomenon that occurs in decaying cultures. In examining a number of millenary movements among primitive peoples, Anthropologist Burridge observes a quaint custom of the behavioral sciences by elaborating the obvious, painfully...
Some time before he made this unusual choice, British Colonel John Wallis had shoved a .45 into his mouth and blown his brains out. As a barrister on the British commission investigating war crimes, he had helped hang German General von Kenelm; Wallis' overwhelming sense of guilt had pulled the trigger. So, in British Anthony West's first novel, The Vintage, Wallis is first seen on a mortuary slab. The rest of the book tells of his guilt-and conscience-plagued pilgrimage through the purgatory of which Cape Sable is a part...
What becomes more important than either world is West's exploration of Wallis' guilt-stabbed consciousness and the whole problem of man's.moral responsibility for his conduct. Ironically, Wallis' assigned partner through purgatory is General von Kenelm, his legal victim. He too reveals his past: that of a ruthlessly ambitious soldier who first murdered his best friend and then whole masses of people. At first, true to his nature, Kenelm is willing to settle for a soft spot on Cape Sable. In the end, like Wallis, he feels the need to exorcise his evil conscience...
...Owoooooo!" cried the housewives of Cerne Abbas (Dorset), "here's the milkman and me with the curlers still in my hair!" No wonder they were fluttered. The milkman was Edward Kenelm Digby, 52, eleventh Baron Digby, World War I colonel in the Coldstream Guards, World War II inspector of infantry-training establishments, co-grandfather (with Winston Churchill) of Randolph Churchill's small son. Winston Churchill...
Biggest social blow-off in London since the war began was the wedding of Winston Churchill's big blond son Randolph, 28, to the Hon. Pamela Digby, 19, eldest daughter of horsy Edward Kenelm Digby, Baron Digby. During the service Winston wept, but as he left the Queen Anne style St. John's church in Smith Square he beamed with Alfred Duff Cooper as the crowds, still exuberant over the debate on Lloyd George's speech the day before (see p. 36), howled "Good old Duff! Good old Churchill!" Press photographers had a field day as Randolph...