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...main interest to the casual reader of his book, which is a must for historians, is in the picture Macmillan gives of the vanishing world of the British aristocracy. It was best described by Osbert Sitwell, a friend and brother Guards officer: "The world was a ripe peach and we were eating it"; or by Rupert Brooke, type and symbol of Britain's doomed youth: "Stands the Church clock at ten to three, / And is there honey still...
...violent urges through catharsis." His colleagues, Otto Miihl and Gunter Brus, held an audience of 100 spellbound in St. Bride Foundation Institute when they smeared Susan Kahn, a visiting New York schoolteacher clad only in a black strapless bra and black panties, from head to toe with flour, crushed ripe tomatoes, beer, raw egg, brightly colored powdered paints, cornflakes, half-chewed raw carrot, bits of melon and melon seed, milk, and tufts of moss and grass. Concluded the critic for the London Times, trying very hard to be broad-minded about it all: "The visual arts today are a kind...
Ease in the Squeeze. The market had been ripe for a rise. Its ninth major downswing in 20 years had dropped shares to their lowest levels, relative to earnings, since 1958. Dozens of giltedged stocks-among them G.M., Du Pont and Allied Chemical-were underpriced. Such a situation was tempting to the mutual funds, which have been waiting for the right moment to buy at bargain rates. Then, too, there was good news: the elections in Viet Nam; the decision by the U.S. to buttress Britain's pound with more credits; the prediction by G.M. that next year...
...argued, because neither side will ever be able to win a military victory. The only solution, De Gaulle insisted, is the neutralization of all Southeast Asia, guaranteed by the U.S., Russia, Red China, Britain and, of course, France. But alas, "such an outcome is not at all ripe today, assuming that it may ever be." The reason: the U.S. will not contemplate withdrawing its forces in Viet Nam before a "political solution" is arranged. Therefore, he concluded, France cannot think of proposing any help or mediation toward a settlement, since '"no mediation will offer a prospect of success...
Norman Mailer writes so obsessively, and says so many silly things, that the crowds he draws have learned to come with their pockets full of ripe eggs. He makes an irresistible target, like a Hyde Park orator who seems to ask for, if not necessarily to deserve, just what he gets. It is worth noting, however, that he always gets a crowd...