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...dear old fellow (George Devine). In the next scene Tom (Albert Finney) is already pushing 20-not to mention the voluptuous daughter (Diane Cilento) of his uncle's gamekeeper. Five minutes after that the audience knows all about the beauteous Sophie Western (Susannah York), Tom's light-o'-love: about Squire Western, her apoplectic pa; and about that slimy fellow Blifil, who considers Tom a rival for Allworthy's estate and who hates him as only a boy with pimples can hate a boy all the girls adore...
...Light-o'-Love. In Milwaukee, Howard Clickner was arrested for repeatedly annoying his estranged girl friend by putting red lanterns on her front porch...
...exchanged smiles with people. In A Man and a Woman, Louis Guilloux described a quarrel between a businessman and his wife-a quarrel which is hair-raising precisely because it is caused by nothing but sheer boredom. In his two contributions, Jean-Paul Sartre, France's latest light-o'-letters, fills his fountain pen with embalming fluid and blandly describes 1) how reasonable it is these days for a woman to be madly in love with a lunatic, 2) how inevitable it is that a man will get killed if you try to save his life...
Publishing houses, like men, can have "dangerous years." Manhattan's Prentice-Hall, Inc., staid publisher of textbooks, was behaving last week like a middleaged family man on a fling. Its light-o'-love: Duchess Hotspur,† a bedroomy historical novel. Less than a fortnight after publication it had sold 70,000 copies...
...wild characters. Some of them: the Cheeser, Ishmael-like religious fanatic; Kelly, the Brother of the Universal Spirit; Col. Harrison, who ran a New Jerusalem for tramps, partly because he felt like it, partly to irritate his wife; Lily, a high-class harlot, who became Jack's idealized light-o'-love; the London hermit who lived in a vacant lot and ate garbage, a onetime chartered accountant who had left wife and job because he could not stand the feeling of insecurity both gave him. Starving in London put a temporary quietus on Jack's yearning...