Word: lucases
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On November 9, the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations was privileged to host a dinner and reception in honor of Dr. Louis W. Sullivan, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services. This event was recommended by members of the Student and Faculty Advisory Committees of the Harvard Foundation...
EVENINGS AT MONGINI'S AND OTHER STORIES by Russell Lucas
If you didn't happen to catch that tale, but would like to, you are probably the kind of reader who would savor the unlikely hybrids and saucy aromas of Russell Lucas' Bombay streets. A London bank manager for many of his 61 years, the Anglo-Indian Lucas makes his...
Beneath the surface exoticism, Lucas still betrays quite a few rough edges. Would any British memsahib, in 1936, refer to an Indian stranger as "cute" ? Or any native of Poughkeepsie, N.Y., talk of "open((ing)) your schmucky gob"? Does the world really need another lecherous British officer dithering, "I say...
If Lucas has yet to show real subtlety or depth, he does, in a couple of instances, come upon a pathos deeper than mere appetite, and reveal, beneath the plump lubriciousness, regrets and surprising pleasures. Characters find themselves reproved by expectation, exiles on all fronts. At their best, his stories...