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...Larkin. that's me,' Pop said . . . 'Larkin by name. Larkin by nature. What can I do for you? Nice wevver...
...collectors and plain readers of The Darling Buds of May must respectfully disagree with Pop. The story of how Cedric, the tax man, stays for dinner chez Larkin. and stays and stays only to be subverted by food, drink, love and the Larkin clan's infectious lust for life, makes H. E. (for Herbert Ernest) Bates's novel one of the blithest robustious romps of the year. The book's gusto is all the more remarkable coming from welfare-sated England and from 53-year-old Author (The Sleepless Moon) Bates, a writer who in recent years...
...Nudes by Rubens. The Larkins are seasonal strawberry pickers, and their way of life might be called Rabelaissezfaire. When Pop vents his heroic belches, he sounds like Charles Laughton playing Henry VIII. Pop is little seen in the strawberry fields, for he roams the countryside on a spivishly freewheeling enterprise called "the scrap iron lark," which nets him a 600% profit, a margin Pop regards as "perfick." Spacious, sportive Ma Larkin furnishes a groaning bed and board, fills her voluminous pink nylon nighties like two nudes by Rubens. Wed only in the sight of the common...
...cosmopolitan Harvard community, Larkin noted, there is above-average awareness of international affairs. One problem with students in other parts of the country is that "they don't have The New York Times," Larkin remarks...
Americans, on the other hand, seldom regard themselves as a "student class" with a particular role in society. While in College they feel that they cannot have much impact on national and international affairs. Larkin suggests that the American student considers himself an "embryonic adult...