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...youngest brother of Emperor Hirohito, hears the screechings of a U.S. hillbilly tune, he sheds his coat and happily stomps around like a Tennessee mountaineer. The prince did it twice on a private tour of the U.S.-once at the New York World's Fair, where he do-si-doed into a square-dance demonstration, again in Philadelphia when he overheard the Delaware Valley Square Dance Association holding a hoedown in the ballroom of his hotel. But at the mention of the frug or Watusi, the prince winces a bit: "I do not do these dances...
ESAU AND JACOB, by Machado de Assis. Machado is the Proust of fin de siècle Rio de Janeiro. His chronicle of old manners and old morals being swept away by new money has the fascination of a gossip column and the authenticity of a diary preserved in lavender...
...enjoying the fruits of their conquests in the world of finance and politics. Their sons and daughters were whirling at fashionable balls, attending the opera and negotiating advantageous marriages. Along the gaslit avenues, streetcars were beginning to compete with horse-drawn landaus. Sounds like some place in fin-de-siècle Europe? Actually it is Rio de Janeiro during the last quarter of the 19th century, as affectionately remembered by Brazil's extraordinary novelist, Machado de Assis, who died in 1908. A popular author during his lifetime, Machado was rediscovered in Brazil at the time of the centenary...
...their Afro-Asian visitors were confused about Algeria's new government, the Algerians were left even deeper in the dark. The government-controlled press, radio and TV pointedly avoided any explanation of its aims. The regime's newly appointed spokesman, a suave former tourism minister named Si Slimane, even refused to identify the members of the ruling Revolutionary Council or say how many there were. Asked last week whether Houari Boumedienne was in fact the new Chief of State, Slimane snapped back: "That is a question which should not be asked...
...COUPLE. Art Carney and Wal ter Matthau are roommates in Neil Si mons hilarious study of two men who thought they couldn't live with their wives- until the tried living with each other...