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...issue a test of his manhood," says a top White House aide. Whereas the former four-star general was flamboyant, emo tional and highly charged, Shultz, a com bat captain in the Marines who became an academic, is calm, collegial and reflective. His stolid demeanor seems more suited to absorb the bureaucratic shocks than Haig's thin skin. Says a senior State Department official: "Haig's style had be gun to be an issue in itself. Six weeks of Shultz have turned down the volume...
...affect political events. Academicians, politicians, and print journalists were invited to question and challenge the TV bigwigs, but discussion revealed few new insights. Almost to a man--and woman--the network anchors, producers and executives defensively closed ranks, apparently too sensitive about their side of the news business to absorb the constructive criticism they supposedly sought when they proposed the meeting in the first place...
Indeed, Hollywood may be bent on disclosing more than anybody could possibly absorb about the stars-or, for that matter, care to know. Gary Grant, Bette Davis, Laurence Olivier, Richard Burton and (in separate covers) Elizabeth Taylor are merely the foremost subjects of the latest crop of biographies, autobiographies and memoirs. Dozens of these volumes have been gushing off the presses, and sometimes the trend seems to be toward not just revelation but multiple exposure: Joan Crawford and Errol Flynn have been dealt with in a couple of books each, and three biographies of Gary Cooper issued forth almost simultaneously...
Warning against limited graduate school or professional careers. President Bok yesterday, urged a baccalaureate service audience of 600 seniors to seek lives that "continuously engage all of your interests and absorb all of your energies...
...instead of in a cathedral at midnight. Every Kirov dancer and musician knows a common musical idiom as well. The orchestra takes blithe liberties with tempos-flying allegros, subaqueous adagios-that are a shock to ears accustomed to stricter counts. One needs an entire performance of Swan Lake to absorb the confident, even radical, musical style...