CYPRUS AT WAR-AS A DOCTOR SAW IT
THE IMPARTIAL KNIFE. By Pator Paris," Hutchia: kon, 21e
the scheme of SITTING in a Nicosla
Before feeling too gratified, ed conversations outside her rehect that the average person's room in the nursing bome, the vocabulary, Is fewer than 25,000 baby died, as it happened.) words.
The major scene is at a coski. Moreover, roughly one known tail party, which
word or expression in minor moment in the scheme of English four. Is ergot, dialtet, zibberish, things.
cuffer shop with my Natraliva is largely idiom, jargon, lingo, parlante, hearsay; adeed, the book might back to the darkened patolo, vernacular.. or collo as well be called. "Oblique quidlism In a single word, stang.
It does not live within the #anctifed temple of the Oxford English Dictionary.
Changing
And slang is constantly
changing.
House" as by the present tile, strect would have been which is attention-catching but an act of suicide but for ' almost meaningless
Now I can just conceive of my companion's pre- this being made an immense. sence. technical tour de force, but as
writta here I found it all too The young Irish doctor much like listening to a group with the guitar and a way ef. étrangers discussing · old
Bife.
had saved the lives of If I say that the Prime Minister friends, fascinating to them, of with itinerant air hostesses is surfeited with a blue plumb illo interest to outsiders.
wounded EOKA and that the Archbishop of Can- There is came wit and sharp several terbury has never touched & Discrvation, and Powell addicts guminen and with him I felt ble al zea, anybody bom 200 will clearly enthuso-it addle- ago will realise I mean lien is not too strong fa 'word, years simply that Mr Macmillan car-nos "Casanova's Chinese Re- rics a war wound (blue plumb staurant" offers what seems to cquals lead shot), and that. De me the 1tary equivalent, of Fisher is unaccustomed to handl- wook Chitra teä, ing a boatswain's axe, which went by the Biblical nickname.
mipboredly American exprezatons are ancient English Thriller stang. "Beat it," for example, of the week occurs in Shakespeare."
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But American slang is all the WATCHER IN THE mare Jazzy and cosmopolitan WAT
because it draws on the language
of so many,
SHAD-
Moreover I was pre- occupied with trying to per suade him to write a book, I succeeded and now here it 18.
Lawrence Durrell and Penelope Tromaynė
have
given us something of the
OWS, by Geoffrey House-taste of Cyprus under The (Michael Joseph, 15s). Terror: a compound of dry- European immi- hold grants, as can be seen from the The bomb in the pacel ex-mouthed fear and dry wins: tracinating new DICTIONARY plodes prematurely, blowing barbed wire and carnations: OF AMERICAN SLANG, by the postman to bits instead of old blood feuds and fresh, Harold. Wentworth and Stuart Charles Denim
Picnics, too
To this blood "Peter Paris"-----
Berg Flexner (Harrap, 42.). Why the attempt? First etua bright blood. drying in the
This is prefaced by a brilliant coined with the arrival of auth essay from Mr Flexner, point- photograph of Buchenwald, the salding out how lang incorporates bicers' mess marked with a
Dehriim the lingos of such groups as the gross,
(anglicised underworld, show biz, tramps, Austrian) was once a Geslapo drug addicts, and students, and beer attached to that mesa, how it has racial, social, and es- and now it stems that some pecially sexual connotatlona.,
'unknown. is -- taking prizon You may like to test your savage revenge on all such who as the doctor calls himself-adds knowledge of American slang en escaped wor
ctinal exocy-guts. these examples:-
tions.
THE LURE The appalling dificulty for Dennim is that he was in fact
British spy-but this he can hot tell for convince) his, hid- keh assailant.
"Ella Kazan, who directed my art picture, would have given his right arm to get Wayne for the picture. Don't think the big directors encer, at those stars: they don't.
"Our actors may lack the style and voice for Shakespeare. I'll admit, but in every "other" ways I prefer them to British netcra, They've
more got realism. I'm not too mad about
Brit actors,"
Bubble - dancer, baggage |xmashier, gas-house, pig-between- two-sheets, red horse, refrigera- lcr.
They mean, respectively, a female dish-washer, a railway -porter, a beer garden or a pub. a ham sandwich, corned beef, a prison.
The authors might have said more about the supreme Ametl
to slang: the can contribution term OK. It derives from "Old Kinderhook," eighth President of the U.S.A.. who was born and died at Kinderhook, New York, and whose supporters turned the Initials into a term of approval and agreement in about 1040.
It's fun
Raroly can the end-products of a political deadlcsk have
such been described in
Krim detail and this is no book for weak stomachs.
But this is what happens in The only course is to stake war and emergency wards and to cli himself out as goat, in the hope it is a useful antidole of luffing the hidden tiger, into those jolly doctor-in-lust romps, error.
book.
But it is also
gay
shops and the that rested twanging
With a light frish wit Be re- calls things that made us laugh and the comle characters occa- sionally silhouetted against the bloody background.
So off to the West Country (where. Mr. Household is always Most evocatively, the doctor most at home, and a battle of recall the picnics in crusader wits round a lonely cottage, and natles, the Elysian beaches, the poison attempts (the dog it was Turkish kebab stolla and the. "I've really appeared in some "Oh, some of them are won- rubbish, haven't I? In most of derful,” sald Miss Collins.
that died), escape in a hearse, Greek coffee them I didn't even try, I defensively.
claborate ploys and counter partics reasoned that, E my netices
plays, compiole with mapa of norves.. were bound to be bad, I could "And why have all these
Uistrict (it is that kind of old- always console myself that it Englih avtresses who come to
fashioned thriller, and all the was because I'd made no effort. America got such dlg busts?"
A dictionary lite this, indeed beltar for B), demanded Mr.Beatty EUS-
Plus - an
eccentric any dictionary, is fun as cvld-
horse "I'd really tried, and then
piciously,
ente of our wonderful resources riding aunt, and a retired ad- miral who exclaims: Great "Who are veu talking about?" of vivid, they language. shid Mirs Collins felly.
And as we start out to look for Bicod and Boses!" (and unlike the excitements of this year's himert all such, actually did not "Oh, Ders
books, we should bear in mind get my personal geat), and gra- could have replaced come of his that willingness to accept novelty Hunt unveiling of murderer, political pontifications, with is evidence of life--and that in and mary:lidus Arish with more of his delightful stery the beginning pre the words. horseback chase and gun duel telling,
In bar and wood: "Four in the
Even
Irishman,
the Cuphea „tratíbles is worth reading. although his diagnosis is not d [deft"da" his dissection.
what I'd have done.
"I was usually right about the stuff they put me in, you knew,
all and
those
I told them Esther and the King others," was rubbish before we even started. They said No: It would' Miss Collins's voice rose, to a be great. Well, was rubbish.. fine shriek: "Dors," The absolute end.”
་
got
she wald "She's contemptuously. nothing brag about." "Did you see: {{7” Inquired "Oh,
really?" Mr Beatly.
"Yes," I said.
"Then you know, don't you," he sald.
Miss Collins' eyes, which had glazed slightly as the talked about the film, came to
The Last Gangster turned again.
down on Invitation for a con ducted tour, of the Tower of London-Hodeoldeil to cart
Instead.
Beaity.
solt
Mr
We Anished our meal and I
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The world of Anthony Powell
drove them back to Mr Beatty's Powell: (apparently pro- THE Cult of Me Anthony rented house. By the time we
arrived they were, both in good spirits again.
nounced Pole) is a mild literary
phenomenon sponsored by od: mirets who lay on the compli- AD attractive couple. I hopements with a trowel [pto- Miss Collins gels the flims she nounced role?). He is engaged deserves. I. hope the 'gels Mr -on a kind of Hindsight__ Bago, Beatty too, though I wouldn't dealing with aspects of English me bet en It.:
"You
.know" the psychiatry has helped tremendously as actresa.
said,
LOLLOBRIGIDA COUNTER ATTACKS!
165
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LA: LOLLO, DANOJ of formula Tiideed; less expert filmgoers Wire not always sure which was which. Hut measures menta are not enough for ambitious gira
FILM IS CALLED "GO NAKED IN THE WORLD.” BUT THAT IS. OF COURSE,(ME)
ONCE upon a time Gina Lollobrigida AhU Sophia Loren were just two well-shaped Italian glamour girls who brought new dimen, slons to the screens of Britain: La Lollo and La Lorell practically invented the 86-24-88 sort
Sophila took to scing. And now fitu bas takan's to dancings Girls are hever enlisted their days:
Landon Express Sérulch).
zodely (melly Hernie, gen- 12, middle-to-upper clens) in the 1030's, of which the fifth instalment, CASANOVA'S CHINESE RESTAURANT (ffeinemann). 18x.) is just out.
A book should start up in 114 own individual righ); and on this eviátnce, Mr Powell sems to ma like nothing so much, as Evelyn Waugh (in domile, del)
ELABORATES
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Like a card-player: who cachowo the grand, slim, Me Powell-hában" "ödd way of olaboralely billing up people and silukiloni, then ranially throwing away, thu; dinotismont like, do bald, briauncement “of birth," migtringe, or death, i
Bots with the long d dualion to the unclubus antique-traler Böäçön hoad by the way); Barnaby's clabor- mis.invitation 16, the waitress At Cemnova's, (sha tid go, "idele. |"deviålly"}}, "Moreland”: lebgiby
· Caming Wyer. Matiidh 'nflex her thaw they were latakymarried,
With advantage,
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Dr Paris
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