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Died. Conrad Aiken, 84, Pulitzer-prizewinning poet; of a heart attack; in Savannah, Ga. A close friend and Harvard classmate of T.S. Eliot's, Aiken began publishing poems in 1914. Influenced by both Sigmund Freud and Harvard Philosopher George Santayana, Aiken searched in his poetry and prose for musical and psychological truth -an effort resulting in rich mental atmospheres but lacking in drama and force. Best known for his Selected Poems, for Ushant, a third-person autobiography, and for a number of short stories, notably Silent Snow, Secret Snow, Aiken published more than 50 books of poetry, fiction...
...grandson of Sigmund, Freud has long tickled Britons with his acerbic, urbane humor in print and on television talk shows. Though the contest in the Cambridgeshire constituency of Ely marked his debut in politics, he quickly found the field fertile for his brand of fun. When his Conservative opponent showed a lack of familiarity with rural Ely, Freud labeled him the "identikit candidate." Freud then arranged for somebody to ask the Tory during a TV debate whether he approved of giving funds to MAGPAS. "Oh, yes," chirruped the candidate, a young London stockbroker. "Indeed, yes, an admirable idea. Splendid, splendid...
...engaging aristocrat, Jeremy Thorpe, 44, an amateur violinist and accomplished mimic whose ancestors were serving in Parliament in the 14th century. Now the band has been joined by David Austick, a bald lay preacher and bookseller, and Clement Freud, an antic journalist and television personality who, besides being Sigmund's grandson, is best known to the British electorate for his baleful appearances with a blood hound named Henry in a commercial for dog food...
...prove his worth to Sham and his trainer, Frank ("Pancho") Martin. Before the Wood, Martin brazenly and unsuccessfully offered any takers the opportunity to bet $5,000 against his horse in a head-to-head contest with Secretariat. A Cuban who trains Sham for New York Contractor Sigmund Sommer, Martin is banking on the fact that no son of Bold Ruler has ever won a Derby, or any Triple Crown race for that matter. The Derby distance of 1¼ miles is too great, some believe, for Bold Ruler's progeny. And if Sham is not the horse...
...reasonable premise that the way to solve the crime (operatic especially) is to learn the motif. "The scene opens," she chirps, "in the River Rhine. IN IT!" The Rhine Maidens? "A sort of aquatic Andrew Sisters." Wotan? "The head god, and a crashing bore, too." The incestuous relationship between Sigmund and Sieglinde? "That's the beauty of grand opera, you can do anything as long as you sing it." The beauty of Russell is that the more you know about the Ring, the funnier the record is. That goes for the other soliloquies in the album as well, notably...