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...London papers, the big story quickly became not George-Brown's resignation but press coverage of his subsequent tumble. After the Guardian, Daily Mirror, Daily Mail and Daily Express all carried front-page photos of the elder statesman's dive, the lordly Times weighed in with a cane-wagging editorial scolding them for lack of "compassion and delicacy" in showing George-Brown "fallen in the gutter." Perhaps, the Times added sarcastically, the other papers "resented his infringing their monopoly" there...
...evening is a disappointment. Bilby's Doll confirms the composer's ambitious reach, but not, alas, his grasp of the subject. The story is drawn by Floyd himself from A Mirror for Witches, a historical novel by Esther Forbes. The libretto is as cluttered with conflicts as an O'Neill play, but it does not have half the dramatic impact. This comes as something of a surprise. Floyd's creed is that opera can succeed today only if the composer pays as careful attention to plot as if he were writing a play: the audience must...
...their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country," she said to test the sound equipment. A producer plucked a blond hair from her shoulder. On the chair next to Mackin was her brush, her hand-mirror and a "Transworld Getaway Guide" for Ireland...
...Wainwright, was the price for "years of debauchery conducted on tick [credit]"-Britain's version of the installment plan. Though left-wing Laborites denounced the White Paper as a "document of shame," other party stalwarts were more sympathetic. "Mr. Healey had to act," said the mass-circulation Daily Mirror...
...from, I think, Boston." Though Schuyler does not give his name, he is clearly Henry James. The young writer promises to send Schuyler his newly issued first novel (James himself had just published Roderick Hudson) and to live abroad "the sort of life you have led, Mr. Schuyler." Nabokovian mirror-images multiply. Vidal's puppet., Schuyler, prompts James to live abroad; Vidal has since followed James' example. The locale of this meeting is-also clearly-Edgewater; the handsome 1820 Greek Revival mansion on the Hudson River was once owned by the author...