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Mixed Fiction FOR EVERY FAVOUR, by Ruby Ferguson (320 pp.; Little, Brown; $3.95), is a report on that lost time when the grapes were always plump in the hothouse and no butler ever stole a spoon. Instead of telling the gloom of aristocrats obliged to do without servants, English Novelist Ruby Ferguson, 57, resourcefully chronicles the even gloomier situation of servants who have run out of aristocrats. Her story about the decline, fall and resurrection of Edward Shrewsbury, the perfect butler, is calculated to make envious many a lady novelist who has never thought of using butlers for any purpose...
...imitation of inaction." (He was challenged, partially on the grounds that much of the action is mental and not physical.) "It is clearly a religious play, a deeply Christian play--full of symbolism; and whenever I see a symbol I flip. . . .I also feel a playwright should not spoon-feed his audience; he has every right to demand that the audience meet him half...
...many forms of art, Jarrell finds, too many people are willing to swallow spoon-fed taste: "A great many people are perfectly willing to sit on a porcupine, if you first exhibit it at the Museum of Modern Art and say it is a chair. In fact there is nothing that somebody won't buy and sit in, if you tell him it's a chair: the great new art form of our age, the one that will take anything we put in it, is the chair...
...There are two kinds of millionaires," Mr. De used to say. "The silver-spoon boys and the rabbit's-foot boys." He classed himself with the rabbit-footers...
...among many Texans who stopped last week to recall the vision of the small, strong man with blue eyes, there was the knowledge that there were not two, but three kinds of Texas millionaires: silver spoon, rabbit's foot...