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...newspaper editors with talk of a transition from feudal to parliamentary rule (TIME, May 30). Then he flew to West Germany, drew out $50 million which he had providently tucked away in a bank there, came home and set off on royal safaris across the desert, dispensing largesse to tribal chieftains. Over the past twelve months, Saud has married himself to 100 delighted Bedouin maidens, thus delighting their powerful tribal fathers as well. Since he is allowed only four official wives by the Koran, the King scrupulously divorced one old wife before each new marriage, pensioning...
Unfortunately, the Mayflower's pace as well as its passengers has a grip on Author Amory's latest book, and it is a poky chronicle compared with his The Proper Bostonians and The Last Resorts. He drops some 7,000 names. He delves into 27 tribal histories and relates them unsparingly, from the Adamses and Cabots to the Astors and Vanderbilts, not omitting the Byrds. For the rest, scandal vies with sociology, gossip with anecdote. The anecdotes, though frequently familiar, provide most of the fun, and in some of them Amory captures certain archetypal stances of social eliteism...
...young man's autobiography did not follow the plot. Although Mailer continued to write prodigiously, he never again came close to his first great acclaim. Barbary Shore, his second novel, was a flop. His third, The Deer Park, a study of the tribal sex practices of Hollywood, was a bestseller largely because the word got around that it was dirty (it was), but the critics frowned. By the time his Advertisements for Myself-a threadbare collection of past and future projects, loosely stitched together with some narcissistic autobiographical notes-appeared, late last year, it was all too clear that...
Harried Joseph Kasavubu had behind him not only the Western bloc but a new factor in U.N. politics-tribal ties. Cassock-clad Abbé Fulbert Youlou, the President of the former French Congo and, like Kasavubu, an Abako tribesman, rallied nine French Community states, helped beat back the adjournment motion 51 to 36. Result: after a bit more debate, Kasavubu seemed likely to get the coveted seat...
...Europe was entering on a phase of barbarism, at the very moment the African races believed that they were emerging from it. The perception of that parallel lay at the heart of Waugh's satiric genius. His Bright Young People-the Mayfair savages of his English novels-were tribal kin to his jungle primitives...