Word: van
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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AUNT AGATHA, THERE'S A LION UNDER THE COUCH!, by Wende and Harry Devlin (D. Van Nostrand; $3.95). Aunt Agatha and Matthew live together in a big old Victorian house. One day, Matthew says he sees a lion, and Aunt Agatha, who knows all about small boys' fantasies, gently tells him: "You laugh at it, and it becomes paler and paler until it disappears." But the lion turns out to be real-which just goes to show, muses Aunt Agatha, that "you never can tell when a little boy has something very important...
...SNOWED IN SUMMER, by Florence Heide and Sylvia Van Clief, illustrated by Kenneth Longtemps (Funk & Wagnalls; $2.95). It is the hottest day of the year in New York City, too hot to do anything, so hot that Carrie puts ice cubes in her bath. But at nightfall, Jack Frost comes out of hiding, and Carrie and her doll, Loretta Cecelia, and all the other people in New York awake next morning to find everything covered with a blanket of snow. The story is unusually long, but the illustrations are captivating...
Forming a government is a traditionally unenviable task in politically fragmented South Viet Nam, as new Premier Tran Van Huong discovered last week. It took tough bargaining with President Nguyen Van Thieu, Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky, the nation's collegium of generals and politicians of various persuasions. After seven days, Huong put together a Cabinet more or less acceptable to everyone. When he finally presented his choices, they failed to measure up to the hopes of those Vietnamese and Americans who had wanted the popular Huong to shape a government of national unity...
...cabaret violinist who taught himself to paint. In later years, he recalled: "I was a barbarian, tender and full of violence. I translated by instinct, without any method." In fact, his method of squeezing colors directly from the paint tubes onto the canvas was largely inspired by viewing the Van Gogh exhibition of 1901. In addition, portraits such as L'Enfant Madeline betray a vestigial debt to Renoir's child portraits, while the pointillistic detail and balanced composition of Vue de Chatou suggest more than a few hours spent in the galleries studying the neo-impressionist work...
...fact, the best scenes are those set in the suffocating, sealed-off community of the homosexual-scenes as diabolic and profaning as a witches' sabbath. Here, in the gay parks and bars frequented by people in "the van of decadence," is modern hell for sure. And Yuichi-make no mistake-is Mishima's modern damned man: he who kills everybody and everything he touches by a kind of pathological indifference. He is a soul capable of being neither corrupted nor redeemed because he really wants nothing, nothing...