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...sides of the racial divide. Bradford's schools are among the worst in the country, so bad that the government has turned management over to a private company. The district is one-fifth non-white, but housing patterns often produce schools that are 98% white or 98% Asian. Herman Ouseley, former chairman of the Commission for Racial Equality, coincidentally issued a report last week on why race relations were bad in Bradford. Among other failings, it criticized politicians for making quiet deals with neighborhood ethnic leaders rather than tackling underlying problems. He sees hope in the young, who say they...
...cheroots and an unfinished manuscript in his luggage. Completed in the pauses of a strenuous lecture tour and now put forth as something resembling a novel, Going Native exhibits Dr. Gogarty's prose in a lively state of decay. It concerns the adventures of a Casanovian Irishman, Gideon Ouseley, among the English. About it hangs an odd flavor of the old Evelyn Waugh, not least in the dedication "to Alfred and Patricia Flesh of Piqua." It begins with a ripe and shameless piece of blarney in which Ouseley describes his parting with the late William Butler Yeats ("Grandeur...
Perversely Anglophile as ever, Ouseley-Gogarty leaves De Valera's Ireland to visit his old friend, the vicar of Mea Culpa at Waltham Whirling on the Thames. He discovers the vicar's niece Parmenis, who is as rude as she is beautiful. He reminisces about undergraduate roistering at Oxford; the result is a fair example of the unresting Gogarty wit and the chief Gogarty interest: "I could not help recalling the scene, near midnight one long-vanished summer, between the bridges of the canal behind the college, the silhouetted bowler hats of the proctors converging from each side...
Gogarty ("Gideon Ouseley") and his medico pals soon discovered what was wrong with Anatomy-"it lacked humor." They worked hard to make up the deficiency. Their workshops were fat Mr. Golly's bar, the Hay Hotel (an all-night cabbies' eating joint), Mrs. Mack's brothel. Here, on pawnshop financing, they galloped their horseplay, sang bawdy limericks, chummed with Jenny, the circus tumbler, Liverpool Kate, "the well-known and popular epileptic," Piano Mary, a neurotic socialist whose propaganda was Shakespearean readings in Mrs. Mack's brothel...
...choir sang: "Lead Kindly Light," by Sullivan; "How Goodly are the Tents," Ouseley, and "The Day is Past," by Marks...