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...hunt) is a popular and practical pastime. The mark of a man is his hunting prowess, and the Nepalese still fondly recall the bloody 1911 visit of Britain's King George V, who carted away the carcasses of 39 tigers, 18 rhinos and four bears-plus one unfortunate leopard, run over by the royal mail van. Last week another royal Briton, Queen Elizabeth II, flew into Katmandu from India, and for George's granddaughter, impoverished Nepal (per capita income estimated at $70 cash a year) planned the most elaborate one-day shikar in its history...
...revolutionary" find: a group of 40 female clay statuettes, all of the Asian Great Mother goddess, but naturalistically carved in a variety of poses. They show the deity as a young girl and mature woman, lying down, squatting asleep with a child on her lap and seated on a leopard throne. Some of the figurines have grotesquely exaggerated pendulous breasts and normally proportioned thighs and buttocks; others reverse the goddess' topography. Sometimes she is naked; at other times she wears a loincloth or even a white painted robe. Says one top authority on the Neolithic period: "From...
...from her it evokes feudal harmonies rooted in a blood consciousness as profound as the roles of father and son, husband and wife. Her mood-dry, elegiac, wounded yet unbleeding-strongly echoes that of the aristocratic author of the brilliant 19th century Sicilian chronicle and recent bestseller, The Leopard; this somehow befits a woman whose African nickname was "Honorable Lioness" and whose real name and title are the Baroness Karen Blixen...
...four main species: hard-looking City People, College Students, Way-Out-of-Towners, and You. Within those classifications are countless inevitables: the girl with the white orchid pinned to her evening bag (first nightclub? first anniversary?); the short-haired sophomores being smoked by pipes; the woman with the leopard blouse and the tumbling, bright blonde hair; battered men with battered credit cards, wearing off-white ties. The expense-account mood is almost never really drunken and almost never really blithe. Nobody seems to feel thoroughly comfortable...
...LEOPARD, by Giuseppe di Lampedusa. The author, a Sicilian prince, did not live to see his book published and become a bestseller in both Europe and the U.S. The hero is his own autocratic great-grandfather; in grave, glowing prose the story tells how Sicily's great landowners were brought low by revolution and their own stubborn resistance to change. Probably Italy's finest postwar novel...