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...story. Nor is showing this hopeless family man for a few years among his family very rewarding. Too much slighted is the George who was not always fat and fatuous, the sometime companion of Sheridan and Fox who adorned as well as tarnished a picturesque society. His maudlin lament, after Charlotte's death, that he can father no royal line, seems both needless and out of character in the father of Regent Street and Regent's Park, the Brighton Pavilion and Waterloo Place...
...LAMENT FOR A HARVARD MAN I HAVE LOVED...
Blood & Champagne. Lael Tucker, herself a reporter and novelist (Lament for Four Virgins), has told her story with literary skill, and much of it will hit home to readers who neither knew nor cared about Charlie Wertenbaker-the anxious visits to doctors, the peering at X rays, the struggle to live with the truth, the flight from France, where the Wertenbakers lived, to New York for an exploratory operation, the futilities of hospital routine in the face of a dead certainty. The operation only confirmed the death sentence and, unwilling to live as "less than a whole man," Wertenbaker collected...
Explained Musician Bernstein (TIME, Feb. 4) of Lonely Men: "A combination of lament and quasi-football march...
...lament and march parts of "Lonely Men of Harvard" seem completely different at first glance, Briggs commented. He explained that their musically different moods were unified by Lerner's "tongue-in-cheek" lyrics, which gave the whole piece a whimsical cast. The verses in both parts emphasize Harvard's superiority...