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Calais to Coromandel. A painter, poet and fantasist, Lear-as Vivien Noakes' biography makes clear-was a kindly, gifted man in many ways as mocked by madness and petty affliction as Shakespeare's eponymous king. The later Lear, however, played his own gentle fool; his tragedy was wistful...
The author, who in the past has dealt fondly and ruefully with flawed and crummy people (Billy Liar, Jubb), starts in an ordinary way-burying his hero to the neck in an anthill of character defects. What is unusual is that Waterhouse then proceeds to spread a blanket, unpack a...
At the end of the trimester, exuberance dims for most as they are forced to crop wild hair in order to go out to jobs. The air is full of their poignant explanations: ". . . work for the Commerce Dept. . . . going to Alabama . . ." The girls are wistful, too. "We have to hurry...
Unwinding. Still, it was not an easy thing being an ex-President-at least for the first week-and it was clear that Johnson was having some difficulty unwinding. "He's not basically constituted to assume this new posture," observed Jake Jacobsen, a former aide. In a two-hour...
As the Brothers Cohn-Bendit see it, the explosion of 1968-with its barricades, its bloody street battles, its crippling general strike-came within a hairbreadth of toppling Charles de Gaulle. "From the 27th to the 30th of May," they insist, "nobody had any power in France. The government was...