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...sexual hanky-panky that encompasses a titled M.P., a police chief superintendent who turns drag queen by night, Middlesex pols and proles, bird hunters of all varieties and an Arab sheik bent on making the green and pheasant land an adjunct of Riyadh. Molehill is the sixth novel by Oxonian Kenyon, 47, and the first to feature the engaging 'Enry Peckover, whose career can only...
Like one of his fictive double agents, the pseudonymous author scribbled in trains, constructing the character who was to be his later ego. George Smiley bears no physical relationship to his ruddy, unconventionally handsome creator. But like Le Carré, he is an Oxonian, an avid student of German literature and an intellectual manqué. He too was married to a lady named Ann from whom he was to separate...
Died. Thomas Edward Neil Driberg, Baron Bradwell, 71, author, newspaper columnist and Independent, then left-wing Laborite Member of Parliament (1942-75); of an apparent heart attack; in London. An Oxonian, Driberg first became known as "William Hickey," a gossip columnist for Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express (1933-43). As an M.P. he was an outspoken critic of the "mammon imperialists" of Washington and Wall Street. The London Times, in an unusual obituary, noted that Driberg was a homosexual, a fact that he had neither publicized nor sought to hide...
...into my veins." (Take that damn foreigner down to Harlem.) A refined version of the feline eyes, two-coloured hair, the endearingly bumpy nose projected on the movie-screen. The Oxford accent, my dear, of course unmistakable: but not an affected one. Rather the natural tones of the Oxonian graduate, the eternal college boy who likes to reminisce affectionately but unpretentiously about his undergraduate days...
ACCIDENT. Harold Pinter wrote the screenplay, and Joseph Losey directed this glacial dissection of human passion against the background of an Oxonian summer...