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Save for a few anecdotes about Marlon Brando, the novel skimps on backstage gossip and theatrical lore. One of Sonny's more probing thoughts about his profession is "Crap's better in an English accent." Maybe. Laurence Olivier reading The Understudy aloud might improve it, but not enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Assays of Elia | 1/13/1975 | See Source »

CREAMER ALSO excels in capturing the lore of Ruth out-of-uniform. In "Kaleidoscope: Personality of the Babe," Creamer delves into a few feats which make the 714 and 60 homerun marks pall. He dredged up some of Babe's stunning epicurean exploits, including the mandatory "couple of hotdogs and a bicarb" immediately preceding every game. And several locker room observers, provide the definitive statement on Ruth's famed sexual prowess. Creamer dwells on the theme of Ruth's distorted sexuality throughout the book, in his usual lucid style...

Author: By Jim Cramer, | Title: More Bazazz From the Big Bambino | 1/10/1975 | See Source »

...WORLD OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN. 400 pages. National Geographic Society. $9.95. Ten authorities on Indian lore have contributed solid chapters to this volume, but their texts run a gauntlet of illustrations, maps and photographs. This makes the package interesting not only to serious readers but also to browsers, who can find something worth looking at on nearly every page: 19th century paintings of Indian ceremonies and battles, color photographs of Indian lands, tools and dwellings. Nearly 600 different tribes (from Abenaki to Zuni) settled in the U.S. and Canada, and the book more or less manages to do justice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Christmas Books: Looking Backward | 12/16/1974 | See Source »

...legacies of medieval Christendom is the anti-Semitic legendry that has stubbornly survived. At its worst, this xenophobic, scapegoat lore was monumental calumny, a "blood libel," as Jews rightly call it, that accused them of ritual murders of Christian children. The accusations were sheer fiction, the trumped-up charges of fanatics or Inquisitors anxious to justify persecution. Now a report from the American Jewish Committee's European office reveals that the old calumnies "still are being commemorated in religious ceremony, festival or art in several Western European countries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Legacy of Hate | 12/2/1974 | See Source »

...time Mostert has evoked this world-as graphically as Conrad presents the Sturm und Drang facing the captain of the steamer Nan-Shan in Typhoon-the reader, stuffed with sea lore, has been shanghaied aboard a ghostly voyage from the demanding past into the threatening future. Ardshiel has bicycles-for exercising on deck-but no ship pets, because. Mostert suggests, there is no crew continuity. (By contrast, the Aquitania, when scrapped in 1950, disgorged ship's cats all descended from a tabby who went aboard on the maiden voyage in 1914). Mostert mildly mourns the fact that nobody refers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Stormy Petrol | 11/25/1974 | See Source »

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