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Dates: during 1960-1969
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EVERYTHING THAT RISES MUST CONVERGE, by Flannery O'Connor. These last brilliant stories by the late Miss O'Connor give no quarter to pity and seldom, even, to compassion. Instead, they illustrate the author's favorite themes: the bonds between parent and child, between the tyrannical weak and the consuming strong, and between Southerners-white and Negro-leashed in hatred to each other...
...packs his portmanteaus with sartorial accouterments for every conceivable occasion: white flannels for tennis, plus fours for golf, blazer for cricket, bowler, boater and deerstalker, tweeds, pinstripes, tails. Everything but the old elephant gun. He claims that he needs all those togs for professional use, but offstage he is seldom seen wearing the wrong suit or the same one twice. In real life he is as wildly gallant and exaggeratedly debonair as any character he impersonates...
Bargains at Tiffany's! The emporium that has seldom had a sale in its 128-year history closed its banklike doors for a day to reduce price tags on the 172,415 baubles in its stores in Manhattan, Houston, San Francisco and Beverly Hills. A 128-carat, inch-wide un-mounted diamond will be reduced from $1,000,000 to $900,000; a $4.50 silver key ring will drop to $4. These cuts -and millions of others across the U.S.- were brought about by the repeal this week of most U.S. excise taxes and the reduction of others...
Along with the bullfights and the Prado, Spain's fabled flamenco dancing is something every tourist wants to see. What U.S. visitors seldom realize is that the "authentic" dances staged in the vast majority of Spain's "singing cafés" or tablaos 'these days are more flimflam than flamenco. To meet the demand, moaned a flamenco impresario in Madrid last week, "anybody who can wiggle his feet or snap his fingers has set up a tablao-and is cleaning up. The result is the complete breakdown of authentic flamenco. They're all dancing...
Despite some well-placed explosions and the gritty integrity of Robertson's performance, Beach seldom seems more than commemorative. It has the curiously flat quality of reminiscence, like a ritual re-enactment of great and ghastly events that happened a long, long time...