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...playing roles, the usual overcivilized charades. Mistress No. 1, a successful couturiére, lives a man's life because she is afraid to be a woman. But she is also afraid to be alone, especially at night, so she rents a sheep she can count on till she falls asleep. The hero himself, more honest and more naive than the others, is a mother's boy who likes to think of himself as a Don Juan but has become, in effect, a male prostitute...
...tidy local industry. But when Prohibition came, the vintners either ground out tons of grape juice or sadly closed down their presses and let their plump grapes wrinkle up into raisins. After repeal, the vineyards recovered only slowly, did not begin to produce wine they could be proud of till the late 1930s...
...toward the negotiations is still hopelessly undefined. Nothing that Harold Macmillan said at Brighton made it any clearer; he believed that "this is the dawn and not the dusk," that "our purpose is by evolution to create a new Commonwealth structure which will avoid the decline and fall which till now has been the fate of every empire." He implied that Britain was to balance itself neatly between Europe and the Commonwealth, a curious program that will complicate Mr. Butler's task immeasurably. For Britain has to make a choice...
...return to his lifelong severe melancholy; yet, "I have often been inclined to think that if this fondness of Johnson for his wife was not dissembled, it was a lesson that he had learned by rote, and that, when he practiced it, he knew not where to stop till he became ridiculous." It is easy to see why this jarred Sam Johnson's admirers, but Hawkins was a man who valued truth highly and charity...
Died. Harry Frederick Comfort Crook-shank, 1st Viscount Crookshank, 68. rapier-tongued parliamentary leader of Britain's Conservative Party from 1951 till his elevation to the House of Lords in 1955 a 32-year House of Commons veteran whose sardonic debating style elicited from Labor Party Leader Hugh Gaitskell the tribute: "I never knew a man who could say such outrageous things with such charm"; of cancer; in London...