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Oranges & Oatmeal. The scene, recalling the world of Oscar Wilde, The Yellow Book and Gissing's New Grub Street, is set in London's "grey and grisly filth and fog," where the lamps seem fueled by sewer gas, and Nicholas Crabbe alone shines by the unflickering integrity of his own malice. Crabbe, "as still and alert as his eponym," making his sidelong way through the bitter brine and marine fauna of a demented imagination, is a memorable creature...
...creative writing, summer conferences, or writers' workshops. He pays four years' advance rent on an attic, a "cave" where he can "agonize in secret," buys some paper, a Waterman Ideal pen, a bed, a mug, a plate, a crate of oranges and a sack of coarse oatmeal. Except that he is "tired and sick to death of all people who on earth do dwell," he has no enemy in the world. But soon he has plenty. They range from "rhypokondylose* violent stultified editors" to literary agents who are "effete homuncules" or "detected Jesuit's jackals...
...week and ?10 on publication. Young writers today, who may count on being filled with gin and lobster if they so much as admit to a publisher that they are sickening for a book, may wonder at those unenlightened times when publishers left Crabbe to his oranges and oatmeal...
...Pleasure of His Company. A suave drawing-room comedy about a middle-aged playboy who teaches his daughter how to sow some wild oats before settling down to the oatmeal of marriage. Cyril Ritchard, Cornelia Otis Skinner...
...Astoria Tower, suggested an appointment. Nixon left it to his staff to set up a breakfast date at 7:45 next morning, let it be known that he was delaying his scheduled departure from New York to keep the date. The upshot: Nixon and Rockefeller got together for breakfast (oatmeal for Nixon, ham and scrambled eggs for Rockefeller), cordially posed for photographs over the coffee cups (Nixon pouring...