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...morning last month British Novelist Virginia Woolf sat down at her desk as usual, but instead of revising her new novel, she wrote a note to her sister saying: "Farewell to the world." She also wrote a note to her husband, Leonard Woolf, editor of London's Political Quarterly. Then she took a walking stick and went for her favorite walk across the rolling Sussex Downs to the River Ouse. When her husband, following the footprints across the fields, rushed up in panic, only her stick was lying on the bank. While searchers dragged the Ouse, Leonard Woolf told...
...family was inclined to think that Virginia Woolf was a suicide. She had always been morbidly self-critical, agonized over almost every book, sometimes suffered a complete nervous collapse. Perhaps, as she stood beside the Ouse, as World War II and the war's changes closed over her, Virginia Woolf came to feel at last like war-shocked Septimus Smith, whose suicide she had described in Mrs. Dalloway: "Human nature, in short, was on him-the repulsive brute with the blood-red nostrils. . . . The whole world was clamouring: Kill yourself, kill yourself...
...inept at playing themselves as they are at re-creating Coward's characters. All passion spent, they seem blankly disaffected, otherwise engaged. The chemistry between them is about as combustible as lukewarm tea, though their quarrels raise ghostly, vulgarized echoes of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf...
...pick up a few records casually, with a suggestive tilt of her head and a furrowed brow. When Taylor and Burton finally go at it--not only with records but also pillows, and newspapers--it's as if one were watching a parody of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (though that movie was gracious enough to avoid airborne and partially chewed grapes). Other scenes seem misdirected and heavy-handed. "I was in love with a woman in South Africa," Elyot admits. "Did you make love to her in the bush," Amanda returns, awkwardly toying with a banana...
Advising Sci/Tech's investment specialists will be a council of scientists and other experts in fields ranging from biology to aeronautical engineering. Harry Woolf, who will head the council, is director of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J. Says Arthur Zeikel, president of Merrill Lynch Asset Management as well as Sci/Tech: "Our international scope, professional management and scientific advisory council will put Sci/Tech on the cutting edge of the rapid changes in science and technology around the globe...