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...nice of the Queen to include Scottish Novelist (The Mandelbaum Gate) Muriel Spark, 45, on the New Year Honors List, naming her to the Order of the British Empire. Nice, but not nearly nice enough, complained the ladies of British letters, who regarded the O.B.E., one step from the bottom of the honors, as a damn with faint praise. Sniped Rebecca West, herself a more lofty Dame Commander of the Order: "I cannot help but think that the persons responsible for recommending the award to Muriel Spark of an O.B.E. must have been actuated by a desire to make...
...much as in world power-that America has come to occupy during the last 20 years." This view is borne out by the anthology, but another selection might have been less flattering to U.S. readers. For example, British writing is meagerly represented by Angus Wilson, Doris Lessing and Muriel Spark. There are no stories by two great English stylists, Graham Greene and Evelyn Waugh, by Anthony Burgess or V.S. Pritchett, or by those writers, like Coljn Maclnnes, John Wain or Kingsley Amis, who have given voice to the enhanced position of the British working class-"the people of England...
...woman teacher has no right to compensation for jury duty-even though men teachers do. New York City's board of education refused to pay Teacher Muriel Goldblatt the difference between her jury pay and what she would have earned had she not been absent from the classroom. Since men teachers get such compensation, Mrs. Goldblatt sued the board. Sorry, ruled Civil Court Judge George Starke. While men teachers must serve when called, New York exempts women from jury duty. Thus women teachers serve only by choice, and are not entitled to pay for teaching when they volunteer...
...four players, each assigned a key to the same flat. The flat is on Manhattan's Upper East Side, and the wicked rejoinders wafting through the premises kept Broadway playgoers bouncing happily into the high-priced upholstery for a couple of years. Alert to the undertones of Muriel Resnik's comedy, even a prude could relax and enjoy it, secure in the knowledge that every vibrant innuendo was just a homily in disguise. Nobody is perfect, after all-and problems have a way of working out. If an industrial giant (presented as a TIME cover subject) keeps...
...Paris. Resnais has abandoned the strongly contrasting black-and-white tones of "Hiroshima Mon Amour" and "Last Year At Marienbad" in favor of low-contrast greys which deliberately reduce the effect of the plot's melodramatic content. Although the visual construction is simpler than that of "Marienbad" and "Muriel," Resnais does insert short scenes which represent the imagination of the hero, a tired revolutionary played brilliantly by Yves Montand...