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...courses that are really dying (or being given loftier names) are those made infamous by educationists-bait casting, ballroom dancing, bridge playing. The University of Miami has dropped its water-skiing course, and various Texas schools are being pressured to wash out radio listening, horseback riding, art education ("where they teach teachers to paint like children"), and something called "Enriching the Later Years...
What passions flicker beneath Georgie's grey flannel mortarboard? As the reader meets him, he is preparing to go horseback riding. A shrewd old groom suggests a placid bay, but Georgie rejects his advice and takes a balky black gelding. Of course he is thrown. No student of women's-magazine prose can fail to understand the symbolic significance of this, and it has nothing to do with horseback riding. The groom (servants are as clever as presidential speechwriters in this sort of fiction) is Fate, and Georgie's pettish assertion of masculinity means that...
Terrible Time. Sinclair emerges from his own book an admirable, sympathetic and totally cranky figure, best seen in his early years enjoying every minute of the terrible time he gave himself. He lived through one winter in a windy cabin in the New Jersey woods within horseback ride of the Princeton library. Theories about food and sex complicated his life. Food was either all vegetables or, for a time, all meat. Once his wife tried to kill herself with a pistol. For one thing, she was depressed about life in a snowbound cabin on a no-sex basis...
...radio station had hired a plane to bombard the town with colored pingpong balls that were exchangeable for merchandise at the million-dollar Phenix City Plaza Shopping Center; a weekly newspaper glowingly reported plans for the second annual Christmas parade, featuring "seven bands, 18 floats, clowns, entertainers, riders on horseback"; and the sounds and sights of building were everywhere. And all this good clean fun, all this civic enterprise, was taking place in what was. not too long ago, the tawdriest sin city left...
...acquisition of a Goya would be a noteworthy event no matter what the subject, but a Goya Wellington attracts added interest these days. Goya painted three: the one in Washington, a less successful Wellington on horseback in London's Wellington Museum, and the bust-length portrait that was stolen last year from the National Gallery in London...