... his sad, boozy hero, Major Desmond Cook, backing horses to win his dream-house and plotting some dangerously involved coup? Speaking as one who has never quite grasped how you put money on a horse, let alone get it back, this funny and complicated novel ...

... starting point. Participating in that unique technical revolution in art in France I returned in thought, in the soul, so to speak, to my own country. I lived as if I were turned back to front. Perhaps the principal miracle of Chagall is that in spite of ...

... sentence of Enemies of Promise is my special delight, for being so inescapably signed by the hand that wrote it. The author is speaking of himself aiAom IHH Enemies of Promise, by Cyril Connolly; The Ides Of March, bv Thornton Wilder; The Man In The Net, by ...

... These two old men are exceptions that prove the rule hat in the reproduction trade the best artist is a dead artist. am speaking now of the ser >us reproduction trade not the soi that degrades the public taste vith rubbishy potboilers of anen nes, ...

... the three foot-loose cowboys (Messrs. Clark Gable, Eli Wallach and Montgomery Clift) have been pro vided with set pieces to speak, in explanation of their individual attitudes to life. There's something a mite too mechanical about all this. My final complaint ...

... digestion can manage a little port but cannot endure a glass of cold water, a smartly dressed mother-in-law who is not on speaking terms with her son's slatternly wife, a genial and generous old toper who, as everyone knows, is bound to disgrace himself ...

... defenceless young cleric with myopic eyes and defeated teeth. The scene was shot silent and Mr. Jack Kerouac, who devised it, speaks for and about the characters in a demented commentary. The hand-out tells me, in tones of awestruck reverence, that he spoke ...

... cellar in an access of drunken passion, and she slices a couple of table napkins in two with a Samurai sword. The hero (so to speak) is also the narrator and a thoroughly odious fellow who thinks he ought to have been a don and gives his mistress Italian ...

... Blakely plainly enjoy each other's company. Both are delightedly aware that whether fooling or uttering worldly wisdom they both speak the same language and feel much the same about things in general. Mr. Ian Bannen is a not altogether satisfactory Orlando if ...

... and she does indeed look different, in that she is wearing a longish bob instead of her Joan of Arc hair-crop but she still speaks French in that excruciating American accent and she's still just a gal who can't say no. Married to a cosy historian (M ...

... with continual ripples of laughter and never stay awake at ni lit lugubriously pondering the future of the British musical? Speaking or myself I square up to the ordeal as best I can, and as a reward for tal ng the strain of much artless inanity come by ...

... that the surest way to success is to threaten the threat'ner and outface the brow of bragging horror and at the last to speak memorably for the England that he sees going on for ever, if Englishmen do not betray it. These are the play's weaknesses, ...