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Extracted with misplaced fidelity from Robert Marasco's unfortunate 1970 Broadway success, this lame tale about the corruption of innocence is little more than a trot for Lord of the Flies. An unpopular Latin teacher nicknamed "Old Lash" (James Mason) is certain that all the trouble is caused by his colleague Dobbs (Robert Preston), whom he describes as a "malevolence" and an "obscenity." Dobbs, however, is beloved of all the boys and Lash heartily despised as an overbearing, paranoid pedant. The bitter rivalry between the two teachers leads eventually to madness, suicide and the equivocal triumph of evil...
...London to be replaced by New York." Still the Property Party, as Vidal calls those who rule the U.S., has also produced remarkable exceptions like Eleanor Roosevelt, the subject of one of the finest pieces Vidal has ever written. He turns what is ostensibly a book review (of Joseph Lash's Eleanor and Franklin) into one of the best thumbnail biographies since Lytton Strachey's Eminent Victorians. To Vidal, F.D.R.'s widow is the finest example of the Christian Puritan aristocrat, dedicated to improving the lives of the masses. In recalling her funeral, he concludes with...
...Eleanor: The Years Alone,Lash...
...Lash...
NONFICTION 1-I'm O.K., You 're O.K., Harris (1) 2- O Jerusalem!, Collins and Lapierre (2) 3-The Peter Prescription, Peter (4) 4-Open Marriage, Nena and George O'Neill (5) 5-Eleanor: The Years Alone, Lash (3) 6-George S. Kaufman, Teichmann (6) 7-Fire in the Lake, FitzGerald (9) 8-Paris Was Yesterday 1925-1939, Flanner (7) 9-O Congress, Riegle 10-The Superlawyers, Goulden...