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...SERPENT AND THE ROPE (407 pp.) -Raja Rao-Pantheon...
Author Rao's credentials are impressive. André Malraux sought him out as a cicerone for a tour of India; Lawrence Durrell has pronounced The Serpent a work "by which an age can measure itself"; and E. M. Forster, whose Passage to India remains the classic of Anglo-Indian intellectual commerce, has praised Rao's Kan-thapura (not yet published in the U.S.) as perhaps the best novel in English to come out of India...
...looking like the $1,000,000 she gets these days for a movie, Elizabeth Taylor, 30, arrived in London with Companion Richard Burton to brave the same sort of puree mongole smog that nearly did her in last year. While a phalanx of huskies kept photographers at bay, the Serpent of the Nile and Thames skittered into a blue...
Long Day's Journey into Night. Eugene O'Neill's play, one of the greatest of the century, describes his own family in terms of a serpent that eats its own tail, each member eating and being eaten at the same time. Principals are Katharine Hepburn, Ralph Richardson, Jason Robards Jr. and Dean Stockwell...
...depth of their shallowness, at the height of their absurdity, in the humanity of their inhumanity. But if there is revelation there is no development. In a kind of folie à quatre they go over and over and over the same ground, and end where they began-like the serpent that eats its own tail...