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...turns out, was the first part of an intended trilogy. Gainham's new book covers the postwar years until 1951. This time, unfortunately, she has broken the narrative rules she seemed to have mastered in the first book. She picks up two of her best characters, Actress Julia Homburg and Newspaper Editor Georg Kerenyi. But as if no longer trusting them to carry the story, she has invented a tepid narrator, a British security officer named Robert Inglis, and laid on a mystery-writer's plot that turns out to be a fictional version of Donald Maclean...
...tried-without success -to put some life into the dismal school of official portraiture that fills the corridors of his courthouse. Judge Burger is also something of a gourmet. He sometimes runs his wife out of the kitchen in order to experiment with an elaborate recipe a la Julia Child, and he is a connoisseur of wines-particularly the better red Burgundies and the finer clarets. He is even a Chevalier du Tastevin, something undreamed of in the philosophy of Horatio Alger...
...rated series, half were CBS's. The ranking: 1) Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In (NBC), 2) Corner Pyle -U.S.M.C. (CBS), 3) Bonanza (NBC), 4) Mayberry R.F.D. (CBS), 5) Family Affair (CBS), 6) Gunsmoke (CBS), 7) Julia (NBC), 8) Dean Martin (NBC), 9) Here's Lucy (CBS), 10) Beverly Hillbillies...
There was Mike, expressing his "All You Need is Love" philosophy developed during his summer at Head Start; there was Jon defending the legitimacy of being a pal, rather than authority figure, to his kids; there was Julia and Lisse stressing the importance of implementing practical projects to give te children a concrete feeling of success in the classroom...
...Royal could evoke the special virtues of Enigma Variations. Based on the orchestral score by Sir Edward Elgar, the work is a nostalgic visualization of a half-remembered spirit and place: green and pleasant England at the end of Victoria's reign. Before a stunning set by Julia Trevelyan Oman that at once suggests the languor of an autumnal afternoon and the oaken mellowness of a Worcestershire estate, the Royal's dancers bring to life the Malvern Circle of friends whom Elgar referred to, by initials or nicknames, in his score: among them, the brusque, exuberant Troyte (Anthony...