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...TIME had the wrong perspective on the Princess' visit to Amsterdam's seamier section. It is well known that the Princess, a serious student of social conditions, often walks through the city disguised so that she may observe unobserved...
Novelist Benedictus, who had a solidly scandalous success with a first novel, The Fourth of June, about the seamier side of public-school life, unfolds his story with brevity and considerable wit. He has a fine comic flair for translating the mechanized absurdities of big-city life into visions of surrealist fantasy. But in the last chapters of You're a Big Boy Now, his story loses its fine farcical edge, and he makes the fatal mistake of taking his hero seriously. He would have done well to keep in mind a famous aphorism observed by Evelyn Waugh: "Never...
...managed to secure a copy of TIME'S subscription lists for the city. "I then copied off the names and addresses of every subscriber who was listed on either Vallejo Street or Broadway or Pacific Avenue"-three streets that passed through some of San Francisco's seamier neighborhoods and out into "the city's best residential area." Said Cone: "The result was what you might expect. Practically all the copies of the magazine delivered in these three long, varied streets went into the best section. The inference was easy to draw, that if this was where TIME...
...young ladies in question are the infamous belles of St. Trinian's, a gymslip brigade of teacher's pests who terrorize one of the seamier seminaries in Britain's Poison Ivy League. The little horrors were hideously hilarious when they first came squiggling and splotching from the pen point of Cartoonist Ronald Searle. They even had a certain roachy charm in their first two films. But now the joke is as moldy as the girls-theater owners will be well advised to put the fans...
Moore described Tropic as the "adventures of an American in Paris," and compared Miller's anarchic individualism with that of Whitman, Emerson, or Thoreau. "Its seamier passages reflect the life of real people," he told Judge Goldberg: "If this book is obscene, then life is obscene...