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GREENMANTLE; JOHN MACNAB; THE HOUSE OF THE FOUR WINDS; CASTLE GAY - John Buchan - Penguin Books (85? each...
...phonetic vagaries from the English alphabet. Characteristically, he suggested that the best way to do it would be to scrap the whole thing and start afresh, and the prizewinner, a devoted English phonetist named Kingsley Read, did just that. The results of his work have just been released by Penguin Books: a trial edition of Androcles and the Lion, Shaw's famous dramatic spoof of early Christians and Romans, with the English alphabet version on one side and the new Shaw-Read alphabet version opposite...
...sang in coffeehouses in and around Harvard Square that were populated by what might be called the Harvard underworld-drifters, somewhat beat, with Penguin classics protruding from their blue jeans and no official standing at Harvard or anywhere else. They pretended they were Harvard students, ate in the university dining halls and sat in on some classes. Joan Baez, who has long been thought of as a sort of otherworldly beatnik because of her remote manner, long hair, bare feet and burlap wardrobe, actually felt distaste for these academic bums from the start. "They just lie in their pads, smoke...
...these scholar-clowns could stock an eclectic aviary. Alan Bennett, a blond horn-rimmed owl, lectures on medieval history at Oxford. Jonathan Miller, who looks like an elongated ostrich and seems to be acrobattling his way through an imaginary soccer game, is a neuropathologist. Peter Cook, an unblinkingly phlegmatic penguin in tweeds, is a writer and editor. And Dudley Moore, who nestles like a pouter pigeon at the piano, is a musicologist, equally adept at organ and harpsichord...
...only in his froggily croaking voice, but in the dances that he pointedly sits out. Only in a second-act number called I'm Fascinating does he finally take the dance floor (and the house) with his eccentrically masterful specialty, the best-ever human imitation of a drunken penguin on ice. Top supporting honors go to Anita Gillette as a sex-hexed coed with a diaphanous sentence structure ("I desired his body"). Except for her, All-American is an asthmatic wheeze-bang...