Word: mckenneys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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HERE'S ENGLAND (378 pp.)-Ruth McKenney and Richard Bransten-Harper...
...England of Ruth McKenney and her husband Richard Bransten is not unlike the Greenwich Village she described in My Sister Eileen-a place considerably more productive of mad fun and giggling fits than the real thing. The book is designed for the intending tourist, a figure Author McKenney seems to picture as a rather backward 14-year-old for whom things have to be put very, very simply, especially dull and difficult things like history...
Sometimes things get so simple that they stop being history. Brooding over the tomb of Robert Curthose, Duke of Normandy, in Gloucester's handsome cathedral, McKenney drops into a palsy-walsy reverie: "Poor old Robert. I have always wondered why they called him Curthose. Maybe his stockings kept slipping down, the way mine did in the sixth grade?" When dealing, with the world of here & now, Author McKenney drops into a dear-diary style more suggestive of Anita Loos's Lorelei Lee than of an ex-staff writer of the New Masses. "In fact, I think leaving debris...
Comedy Theater (Sun, 9:15 p.m., CBS-TV). Ruth McKenney's Summer Had Better Be Good...
...this halt is likely to be only temporary: "We are too passionate, and too blundering," says Author McKenney, to settle down on "safe and comfortable plateaus." Moreover, as she observes in one of the most cutting remarks ever made about U.S. highbrows in general, "even for intellectuals . . . there is a strong, continuing rhythm of life...