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Certifiably Sinful. A versifying virtuoso, Swinburne molded English into exotic patterns, borrowing widely from the classic Greek to the French symbolists. The results, which ranged from strum-strumming stanzas to languorous rhythms, hinted at unimaginable pagan debaucheries, hymned the fashionable cause of freedom against tyranny. But constitutionally, though he sported a manelike shock of red hair, Swinburne was comically ill-equipped to live the Byronic life he longed for. Tadpole tall and squeaky-voiced, he was forever getting drunk on the dessert wine, and more often than not had to be carried home from dinner parties...
...building seemed "absolutely magnificent," Yamasaki reported. "But as you come closer, it becomes over powering. Its concrete surfaces are brutally crude." To Yamasaki. such a building was out of place in a democracy, where architecture should serve man, not dominate him. "I had the feeling of a great pagan temple, where man must enter on his knees. A building should not awe but embrace man. Instead of overwhelming grandeur in architecture, we should have gentility. And we should have the wish mentally and physically to touch our buildings." Shikataganai. Minoru ("bearing fruit") Yamasaki (roughly, "mountain ledge with great view") does...
...mileage, Tennessee's University of the South at Sewanee is not far from Athens, Ga., but in spirit it is right next door to Athens, Greece. Sewanee's burly boys chase not the pagan pigskin but good marks in Classics 206-"a study of Greek athletics." Purpose: to learn the arts of ancient boxing, running, wrestling, the discus, the shot and the javelin, plus "the Greek concept of athletics and its place in Greek education...
...time, Caesario and Pamela try to solace each other with sex in the tawdry austerity of a Times Square hotel room. It is a hilarious and heartbreaking scene, and belongs triumphantly to Margaret Leighton. She slugs down one whisky after another, and dances like a puritan posing as a pagan. "This is rather exciting, really," she says in an unlevel voice that slides precariously from jolly-good-sport toward hysteria...
Produced by Harry Saltzman and Albert Broccoli, Doctor No has just opened in London and is scheduled for release in the U.S. early next year. To Fleming fans, the dark hood looks of Scottish Actor Sean Connery were somewhat disturbing; they do not suggest Fleming's tasteful pagan so much as a used-up gigolo. Bond would never speak with a cigarette dangling from his urbane lips, for instance. But his lines are not contra-Bond: "It would be a shame to waste that Dom Perignon '55 by hitting me with it," says Doctor No. "I prefer...