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...OXFORD BOOK OF ENGLISH LIGHT VERSE Edited by Kingsley Amis; Oxford; 347pages...
Mosca, the Fox's Fly, is the oily instrument of his misdeeds. As played by Ben Kingsley, he is curiously modern, the unctuous image of the Madison Avenue p.r. man. "Mosca, this was thy invention?" asks Volpone after a show by his weird trio of dwarf, hermaphrodite and eunuch. "If it please my patron," he answers. "Not else...
...KINGSLEY AMIS...
...Kingsley Amis' twelfth novel is set in the now (1976) but hardly the here. Amis has rejiggered the present according to a formula beloved by armchair historians and sore losers: What would have happened if? In the case of The Alteration, the "if is the Reformation: it did not happen. Instead, Martin Luther accepted a compromise with the Roman
...nurtured even grander ambitions: "I hope if I were Prime Minister, I would have the strength to stake it all on Christ." When asked instead to reorganize Britain's airlines into a single state-owned corporation, Reith felt slighted. He found it degrading to work under Air Minister Kingsley Wood, whom he described as "a bally crook" and a "little swine." In May 1940, Prime Minister Winston Churchill appointed him Minister of Transport, but Reith's satisfaction was undermined by bitterness that the more important Aircraft Production Ministry was given to Lord Beaverbrook...