Word: lamberts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard's undefeated, untied football squad is leading at the halfway mark in the race for a Lambert Trophy marked with a new significance...
NORMAN'S LETTER by Gavin Lambert. 232 pages. Coward-McCann...
Biology says that the longer the nurturing period, the higher the species of animal. The quirks in that idea appeal to British-born Novelist Gavin Lambert. He first explored protracted puberty among starlets in Inside Daisy Clover, a barbed novel that Hollywood made into a mushy movie. Now Lambert satirizes the upper-class British male, alternately pampered and scourged in nursery and public school. His hero, Sir Norman Lightwood, is the invincible innocent, a descendant of Paul Pennyfeather who goes unarmed in a world of "pimps and pitiless roughnecks...
...Arab boy, the only one who never took advantage of him, Norman wrote the book's theme: "The romantic and the sinister are always intertwined in an attitude somewhere between a struggle and an embrace." By intertwining them, Lambert has achieved an authentic tragicomedy about an authentic 20th century Quixote...
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