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...apocryphal Lost Gospels. The Golden Legend of Jacques de Voragines and other pious legends are filled with detail that Author Keyes draws on. St. Anne's birth, according to these accounts, was miraculously foretold to her mother and father, called by some Mathan and Maria; upon their couch appeared the Hebrew word Anna (grace) written in gold letters. She grew up and married a young man known as Joachim, whose name had an equally propitious meaning-"Preparation for the Saviour." Legend tells how Joachim was rebuked by the high priest for his childlessness after many years of marriage, then...
Cards of Identity, by Nigel Dennis. This import from Britain was easily the most hilarious, mercilessly penetrating satire of the year. Its theme was badgered modern man looking for a self he can be content with, and the assorted phonies who are only too glad to bring him to couch...
...this keeps up." Como lives a relaxed home life at Sands Point, L.I., where, except for golf, his main preoccupation is his wife Roselle (they were married 23 years ago in Pennsylvania) and his three children (two of whom are adopted). Most evenings he lies on a green couch in his den, munching apples and pears and watching television...
...moral seems to be that the couch cannot call the calipers black. In phrenological terms, the Bump of Causality remains as unobtrusive as a pitcher's mound in Death Valley, while the Bump of Self-Esteem looms over it like Pike's Peak...
...Smithfield, N.C. was in some respects an excellent match for the Little Lord Fauntleroy of Hoboken. They had come from well below the salt, and they loved the high life at the head of the table. Ava, who had been chastened in two marriages and on the analytic couch as well, saw through her martini glass more darkly than did Frank. "If I were a man," she told him, "I wouldn't like me." But Frank liked her very much indeed, left home to keep her stormy, full-time company, finally persuaded Nancy, a steadfast Roman Catholic, to give...