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...inspired million-dollar businesses in posters, party favors and other products. But one who did not celebrate Pooh's 50th birthday last week was Christopher Robin Milne, 56, the author's son, whose 1974 autobiography, The Enchanted Places, described the trials of growing up in the shadow of a Teddy bear. "Pooh is a toy I had as a child," says Mime, now a bookstore owner in Devon, England. "The exploitation of the books makes me sick. I do hope there will be no more of these anniversaries." Anyway, as Pooh's gloomy pal Eeyore philosophized...
...Columbia University and the author of several nonfiction books, is adept at the mechanics of the novel. His dialogue sounds spoken, the scenes pass by smoothly and at just the right clip. Occasionally the prose is too lavish: "The sofas and chairs lie in cool pools of watery shadow like velvet leviathans anesthetized." But such empurplings fade as the book proceeds on its quiet but genuinely moving path. In the end, The End of the Party seems a well-tended, well-annotated photo album, an example of loving nostalgia tempered by wisdom...
...along with the rest of his non-working life. By "valuing things rather than caring about them," a habit which Fitzgerald said is typical of Americans, Dardis limits the scope and interest of his book. The numbers loom large and impressive while the figure of Fitzgerald casts practically no shadow...
...matter how far the Old South recedes into shadow and dust, the money seekers will always pull back the Faulknerian mansions and moss to show the glorious past. Y'all smell dem magnolias, honey? Edgar H. de Lesseps Arlington...
...biggest problem facing Allan Howe is not campaign dirt, but his own behavior. Coupled with a propensity for five o'clock shadow, Howe's actions and self-righteous smugness raise the specter of a former president. Echoing the thoughts of many Utahns, Salt Lake City resident Nick Carling wrote a letter to The Salt Lake Tribune: "Richard M. Nixon is alive and well, living in the state of Utah and running around disguised as Allan T. Howe...