Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Irma La Douce. Transcending the ancient cliche of the goldenhearted whore, dynamic Elizabeth Seal endows a jaunty, harmless French musical with a nice tingle of iniquity and even a certain mixture of sweetness and bite.
Tom Kaye. The woman in the London town house is a neoclassic nymph, the tramp who pursues her is clearly a satyr, and the author's story of the chase is a myth as good as a mile of realistic novels. A Zoo in My Luggage, by Gerald Durrell...
Goodbye to a River, by John Graves. The Brazos River in Texas was to be ruined by power dams, and the author, who writes well of the region's wildlife and wild living, tells of a three-week solo canoe trip he made as a farewell gesture. Summoned by...
The Light in the Piazza, by Elizabeth Spencer. A sensitively written novel of troubled love between an Italian shop owner and a mentally deficient American girl; notably, the author's Americans are neither boors on tours nor snobs trying to look as if they had never heard of Akron...
Divorced. By Jazz Pianist Hazel Scott, 40: Harlem's fast-stepping, quick-talking Democratic Representative Adam Clayton Powell Jr., 52; after 15 years of marriage, one child, and a long estrangement; in Juarez, Mexico.