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...James. If only PBS and C-SPAN deem your performance worthy of coverage, it is cooler not to whine about it. Instead, haul out the quote books and show off your erudition for this upscale audience. Here, for example, is a useful phrase from The Spoils of Poynton: "The fatal futility of Fact...
...factor in the election, however, may turn out to be the X chromosome. Will Margaret Thatcher lose votes because she is a woman? In Leicester, Button Machinist Betty Poynton confessed, after Thatcher's visit to her shop floor: "I don't fancy a woman as Prime Minister. It's a fellow's job." Others may well agree. Thatcher, however, thinks her sex may be an advantage. "There's an air of excitement," she says, "about the possibility that we're going to have a change of this kind." Later, in a mood of introspection...
...trend spotter; he writes on Walter de la Mare but is virtually silent on Joyce; he has nothing to say to the audience of Susan Sontag, which is most unlikely to admire Robert Louis Stevenson, a Greene favorite. For him the old standbys: James' The Spoils of Poynton and Conrad's Victory are "two of the great English novels of the last fifty years." James is "as solitary in the history of the novel as Shakespeare in the history of poetry." It is not the brilliant surface and subtlety of James that attracts Greene, of course...
...much less busy civil court. The transfer was, in fact, so quick that late editions of the paper that same day carried a frontpage bulletin on the judge's shift as well as Mabley's column. "The poor choice of language upset us," admitted Francis Poynton, executive assistant to the chief judge of Chicago's municipal court. Said Mabley: "We ran nothing but quotes. This is the most basic tool of journalism-the honest quote. There was not a word of criticism...
...water while six of their eight children drowned in their submerged car. When a Coast Guard amphibious duck overturned at Beach Haven Inlet, N.J., its nine occupants linked arms in waist-deep water, but loft. waves broke the chain, dragged two middle-aged couples to their deaths. Mrs. Ralph Poynton, 82, refused help as water leaped at the foundation of her Rehoboth Beach home, told rescuers: "I've got plenty of food, and there's a coal fire going in the kitchen range. I'll stay." Within hours she was dead of a heart attack...