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...sensational nature. I am against censoring it except for people under 21," John M. Bullitt, professor of English, said last night. Bullitt, whose course, English 141, studies the period in which Fanny Hill was published, explained that the novel is historically important as an extreme example of the "anti-Pamela" tradition in English literature. Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded is an eighteenth-century defense of chastity...
SING FOR YOUR SUPPER by Pamela Frankau. 311 pages. Random House...
Sherry is the drink Pamela Frankau is offering here for those who take it-out of a cut-glass decanter, and perhaps a biscuit to go with it. The time is 1926, when England was just recovering from the general strike. Back from assorted boarding schools, the three Weston children are assembled at a seaside resort where Daddy's musical show, The Moonrakers, is definitely not raking in the cash. Mummy has been dead for years, and Daddy has contrived a living out of a shoestring and the old school tie (Eton) by writing and acting in summer revues...
...invoking the perpetually Edwardian world of the British upper-class family, where Nanny's always Nanny and nobody dares call her Nan, Pamela Frankau has performed what must by now be almost a ritually required act for all female British authors. Despite this, the Weston children's summer opens onto satisfyingly sunny uplands of the past. Predictably arch and fey and charming, the characters are nevertheless conveyed with a kind of loving concern that can make even a relative seem momentarily fascinating...
Except for short walks with her sister Lee Radziwill or Caroline, Jacqueline Kennedy stayed mostly out of public sight in the Georgetown house that she had borrowed from the Averell Harrimans. Press Secretary Pamela Turnure came and went; deliverymen made their rounds; friends and relations came to call. Dave Powers, her husband's Bos ton friend, stayed for lunch one day; Bobby Kennedy dropped in often. There were the holidays to plan for. They would be spent in Palm Beach, in a house borrowed from a family friend, C. Michael Paul, near the Joseph Kennedys. And, it was announced...