Issue 125

Rosemary Jackson had parents like chestnuts roasting by the fire. Rich accents popped out from small round bodies that had emigrated from somewhere in Middle England. Their daughter was their single joy. Rosemary was of grave demeanor with skin that merited the accolade of peaches and cream, and she had dark lustrous long hair with…

..us with some unanswered questions, not the least being what is it about our society that young men find this the only way to express their frustration with Life, the Universe etc.? I dallied with the thought that perhaps as an only child, our troubled young man might’ve been accorded too much maternal affection, (is…

..the French. Who else would give this sensationalist and disturbing book two major awards – it would never have made it onto the short list of the anglospheric Man Booker – and have it leap into best seller status? Now while I am an unabashed Francophile, but I must confess that they do take intellectualism…

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..election campaign characterised by profound shallowness and intellectual mediocrity by both political parties and the media, I wrote …..“Many years ago I recollect seeing in scratchy black and white an interview between Walter Cronkite and an aging Dean Acheson who had been the Secretary of State in the Truman Administration. He had played a central…

.. that Bad doesn’t get the girl in the end, but he does get his song-writing groove back . And about the songs, I was almost surprised that I liked them quite a lot. Stylistically they were veering towards country-rock for the most part, but they were consistently better than average with smart, self-deprecating lyrics….