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...sure, Miss Swenson does not give us precisely the Juliet that the playwright intended: a nymphet not yet quite fourteen years old. But this is a Juliet we shall probably never see, until perhaps someone revives Shakespeare's practice of having his heroines played by young boys. Miss Swenson is, I should guess, twice Juliet's age; yet she gives us a Juliet who is clearly a teenager, and that is in itself a rare achievement. She underscores the impression with occasional youthful bits of business, such as tossing her breviary up in the air and catching it again...
Trouble comes when a young Masai warrior takes a fancy to Patricia. This nymphet of the Carnivora is delighted. As she well knows, a tradition of the Masai once held that a tribesman could not take a wife until he killed a lion, and Patricia eggs him on to fight King for her. The lion duly eviscerates the tribesman, but just as he is about to dispatch him, up runs the warden. Which to shoot? He hesitates for several paragraphs between his pledge to protect all animals and "an instinctive feeling of solidarity with [the man] rooted in the first...
That is how nymphet-nuzzling Victorian Lewis (Alice in Wonderland) Carroll evoked a little girl's seaside idyl. The lines might well apply to nine-year-old Hilary Bray and her discovery, in Devil by the Sea, that little girls who walk along the shore can expect to find more than sand castles. The friendly knee that innocent Hilary encounters is the shank of an old derelict whom she meets at the amusement park in her seaside home town of Henstable. Later that afternoon Hilary sees the old man lead another little girl across the marshes. Watching his "clumsy...
Than Lolita, no book in years has been more talked about in Great Britain, and none less read. In the U.S., Vladimir Nabokov's brilliantly written, shockingly decadent novel (TIME, Sept. 1) about a middle-aged man's obsession with a teenage nymphet has been riding high on bestseller lists for more than four months. But the British, who usually consider themselves more sophisticated in such matters than Americans, have turned the case into a major public brawl involving a seat in Parliament, the British obscenity laws, Novelist Graham Greene, and some of Britain's top literary...
Since the initial review of Nabokov's Lolita [Sept. 1], TIME has scarcely missed an issue without a reference to that highly publicized parcel of pornography. The association proposed in your Dec. 29 Press section between comic-strip characters Popsie and Poteet and Nabokov's nymphet is apt, but where next will she appear? In National Affairs...