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...Laundered version of " . . . . you. I'm all right, Jack" a piece of British service slang that became a national catch phrase during the recent British election...
...your Jan. 18 review of Glendon Swarthout's novel, Where the Boys Are: we are certain that Author Swarthout knows what he is writing about, since almost every line of the review brought laughter at familiar slang and views. Although the sex views and deeds of the novel's vacationers are extremely exaggerated, the book sounds like a text of modern college students and their customs that every parent should read...
Author Edith de Born, fiftyish, is herself Viennese, lives in Belgium as the wife of a French banker. She writes in a rather stiff English that never conveys the cozy, weary sloppiness of Viennese upper-class slang. And many cliches of her adopted language apparently still strike her as fresh; too often her characters "champ at the bit" or find troubles weighing on them "like a millstone." To Author de Born's credit, her characterization is not nearly so cliché-ridden as her language. The sad pleasures of between-wars Vienna, the long afternoons of penurious idleness...
...Piglet and Harry the Greyhound, and madams like Mad Margareta, 58, who employs 30 girls in one house bordering a canal and owns five other brothels. "She is the capitalist of the district," said the police. The pimps and madams were accused of accepting hippen money (hip is Dutch slang for whore...
...stays interesting. But somehow it never becomes as powerful or haunting as might be expected from the combination of this author and these themes. The old O'Neill faults, on the other hand, are much in evidence: the play is rambling, uneven, unfocussed, and couched largely in outdated slang...