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...Colette; edited by Robert Phelps. Colette (1873-1954) was the most important woman novelist that the French have produced in a century; this magnificent collection of her random reminiscences shows that she was just as important as a memoirist, a female Montaigne who drank the cup of folly till she tasted the dregs of wisdom...
Last week Jagan was biding his time. Under Britain's terms of independence, Guyana will keep a contingent of British troops till October and remain a constitutional monarchy for three years, with Queen Elizabeth as its head of state. Then voters will elect a new government and decide by referendum whether they want to become a republic. With the East Indian population growing far faster than the Negro segment-and thus producing more voters every year-Jagan hopes by election time to have the added racial support he needs to beat Burnham. Burnham's only hope...
...make sure, the Burtons are playing as bawdy a Bard as they can conceive. In the single entendre wedding scene, for example, Burton gobbles up Communion bread like a starving ragamuffin, cuffs the astonished priest, and fumbles grossly through his filthy clothes till at last he finds the wedding ring in his codpiece...
...last of him there is, the last there'll ever be. In 1957, knowing his wild ways, his British publisher assigned a publicity manager to keep him sober long enough to write. Dogging her charge across two continents, locking up the gargle every day till 3 p.m., Mrs. Rae Jeffs got three books out of him before he died. One was Brendan Behan's New York, published in 1964, a love song to that city; one was Brendan Behan's Island-the Ould Sod, what else? And the third was this. In prying this...
Gates admitted that even if work starts Tuesday, that new elevator won't be rady till late November, so that new tenants will have to move in without it anyway...