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Champagne & Pygmies. "American book clubs pay quite astounding sums, don't they?" Lewis asked a visitor recently. Self Condemned, like all Wyndham Lewis' books, shows just why Lewis is self-condemned never to revel in bookclub riches. It demands steady concentration and hard thinking, strikes through to the heart only by way of the head. The book is what its hero Rene Harding calls "a taper in a tornado." Author Lewis is likely to be lighting such tapers for some time to come. To be released this month are the radio adaptations of two new novels commissioned from...
...deepens with the death and burial of his companion, the dog; it breaks into wild orchestration as the crazed man runs to an echoing valley and there hurls the 23rd Psalm against the ringing hills solely to hear the answering sound of his own distorted voice. In a drunken revel, O'Herlihy re-creates in his cave all the roistering cheerfulness of an Elizabethan pub, but this ends, too, in a disillusion so great that he walks blindly into the surf, bearing aloft a blazing torch. When he drops the brand into the sea, it is as though...
Those who criticize us want to live as Europe has taught them-to dance, to drink, to revel, to mix the sexes openly and in public." Cutthroats & Idealists. El Banna proceeded to put together the tightest-disciplined assortment of cutthroats and idealists in the country, half a million fanatics organized into twelve-man cells called "families" reaching into every wadi in Egypt. Objective of the Ihkwan el Muslimin: expel the foreigners, return Egypt to the simple brotherhood of primitive, eighth-century Islam. The Ihkwan battle-cry: "We will knock at the doors of heaven with the heads of the British...
...long as victory smiled on Hitler's "intuitions," the mastiff barely lifted a paw against him. When a bomb was finally exploded in the Führer's presence in July 1944, he was stunned and his famed forelock was set alight, but he lived to revel in the torture deaths of many of the men who made the plot. So dear to Hitler's baleful eye was the sight of a German general slowly strangling on a slim cord at the end of a meathook that he had a film of the hangings...
...Dazzled Heart. Misia's new husband owned an immense castle with towers and battlements, but castles were not to Misia's taste. "Why should I limit myself to two or three hundred acres, when I can revel in the whole world?" she demanded. Edwards promptly sold his castle and built Misia a 100-ft. yacht. Caruso acclaimed the yacht's acoustics perfect, and tirelessly sang Neapolitan songs whenever he was a guest. "Enough!" Misia finally cried. "I can't bear that any more!" Eyes popping, Caruso exploded in dismay: "I, Caruso, the great, the incomparable Caruso...