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Novelist de Beauvoir's Count Fosca is immortal-the result of downing a beaker of the elixir of life distilled by an Egyptian alchemist. So when he meets ravishing Regina, a 20th century French actress, Fosca is 700 years old (he still looks thirtyish) and is thoroughly fed up with life...
Artful Dodges. Thirtyish, and sheltered from the cradle up, the novel's hero, Ilya Ilyich Oblomov, is an absentee gentleman landlord on the skids, vegetating contentedly in a St. Petersburg flat while his estates and his income go to pot. The book first finds him in bed, for Oblomov is a Russian Hamlet, except for a lower I.Q., and his daily question is: To get up or not to get up? His room is a maze of cobwebs and clutter. Friends drop in and try to lure him into making the social rounds, but he shoos them off. Parasitical...
...mock hero of The Man Without Qualities is a thirtyish intellectual named Ulrich. an egghead so tired that he is little more than a spiritual shell. Echoing his nihilism is a chorus of earnest buffoons: a Prussian millionaire who yearns to be an ethical superman, a general who is a kind of military Mortimer J. Adler and wants to classify all the world's great ideas, a beautiful but muddled matron who thinks the quickest trip to heaven is on a cultural broomstick. Author Musil perches them all on the lip of a volcano-the years 1913 and early...
Married. Ben (for Benjamin) Grauer, 46, former child movie star and longtime NBC announcer reputed to be the "most often heard man in history," currently M.C. of NBC radio's Conversation (and on call for such special events as conventions, elections, sportscasts), and Melanie Kahane, thirtyish, New York interior decorator; he for the first time, she for the second; in Manhattan...
...colleagues struggle just as gamely, but their paths are more cluttered. The Tender Trap may well be one of the best-acted of all bad plays. Graham mugs and ingratiates simultaneously. Kim Hunter, playing a thirtyish career girl, adds a trim sophistication which balances Graham without neutralizing either role...