Word: tarquin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When she was a Hollywood child in the 1940s, she seemed surrounded mostly by chauffeurs, governesses and magicians who performed at birthday parties. A list of her classmates at the Brentwood Town and Country School read like a second-generation all-star cast: Lady* Jayne Seymour (Henry) Fonda, Tarquin (Laurence) Olivier, Maria (Gary) Cooper, Jenny Ann (Ingrid Bergman) Lindstrom. Her own parents were Actress Margaret Sullavan and Producer Leland Hayward. Last week, with most of the class doing post-graduate work†,Brooke Hayward, 23, made her TV debut on the U.S. Steel Hour, walking prettily through a preposterous play...
Very little happens in The Black Book; it is all murk and manifesto. One meets a menagerie of physical and spiritual cripples-Tarquin, a homosexual; Lobo, a whoremonger; Clare, a gigolo; Gregory, a poet whose feelings chafe against a talent one size too small. These tortured grotesques are insignificant, but they prefigure the Alexandria novels. So does the fetid brilliance of the passages in which