Word: kingsley
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ANTI-DEATH LEAGUE by Kingsley Amis. 307 pages. Harcourt, Brace...
...novel is a lot of fun, but it is hard to make a real hero emerge from a blizzard of custard pies; Kingsley Amis (One Fat Englishman), scored better in the U.S. Besides, not many native readers will share the conviction that American activities are inherently comic because they are un-English...
...EGYPTOLOGISTS by Kingsley Amis and Robert Conquest. 245 pages. Random House...
...Kingsley Amis (Lucky Jim) and Robert Conquest (onetime literary editor of The Spectator) were educated at Oxford, and both are sometime university dons. Between them, they have produced 18 books, including six novels and four volumes of poetry; in collaboration, they have edited the science-fiction "Spectrum" anthologies. Now they have attempted a comic novel. Like many others, this one assumes that there is surefire hilarity when British characters natter away with upper-class accents on low-class subjects. Not so. This story, about a group of lecherous London husbands who organize the scholarly sounding Metropolitan Egyptological Society...
...Married. Kingsley Amis, 43, Britain's maturing, anti-Establishment novelist (One Fat Englishman), most recently turned student of 007 (The James Bond Dossier), whom he humorously and minutely examines from poison tip to blade-edged toe; and Elizabeth Jane Howard, 42, fellow novelist (The Sea Change); he for the second time, she for the third; in London...