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Picture on the Wall. Aymé writes about two families, the solid upper-class Lasquins and the bohemian middle-class Ancelots. M. Lasquin, a hard-working industrialist, falls dead at lunch one day, between the trout and the duck with orange sauce. The death is rather ill-timed, for the workers at his factory are restive. Who can take his place there? His son-in-law Pierre is the natural candidate, but Pierre cares nothing for industry and responsibility, or, for that matter, for his pretty young wife, Micheline. Pierre dreams of being a track star, keeps a picture...
...More Love." Florence was 24 before the voices told her exactly what she must do, and 33 before she left her parents to do it. In the meantime, she seemed to live the typical life of a girl born in upper-class Victorian society. Her father was a rich dilettante, her mother a society figure. Florence, a slight, willowy girl with chestnut hair, sparkled at parties and balls, traveled on the Continent. She had a rush of eligible suitors, including young Richard Monckton Milnes, socialite, poet and philanthropist...
Most of Lewis' novels are variations of Babbitt. Sam Dodsworth (who seems to improve with age) is an upper-class Babbitt with more dignity and deeper insights ("he sometimes enjoyed Beethoven"). Elmer Gantry is a Babbitt with a clerical collar and the courage of his disbelief; "Buzz" Windrip (the American dictator in It Can't Happen Here) is Babbitt running amuck with a submachine...
...trolleys that rocked forlornly along the main stem, the last tired oxen plodding patiently southward, were all sharply reminiscent of similar scenes in China. At week's end the wealthy, who could afford to wait until the last minute, were packing up to get out. In front of upper-class Korean houses and stores, merchants in beaver-collared coats supervised the loading of their more valued belongings. A beautiful girl in a rich velvet skirt and cloak glided gracefully into a waiting auto...
What with the current upper-class Bolshevik prosperity, it looks as though the Aragvi, together with the Ararat and the others, will all be packed with heavy spenders. As Stalin said in the '30s, "Life is getting easier, life is getting happier...