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Nixon may think he got the shaft, but Dan Drasin '65 got the king's elevator this week. Drasin filmed Sunday in Washington Square during the folksinging riot just before his freshman year; it went on to win international acclaim at festivals and in the film journals. At last it has come to the Square, but neither the Brattle, in its ads, nor Ivy Films, in its lavish spread in the HSA Calendar, bothered to mention Sunday. For the Brattle this amounts merely to bad business, but for Ivy Films it is an act of bad faith. Drasin...
...literary world was taking seriously the stories he poured out purely for extra cash. "When I didn't know they read my tales." he explained to a friend, "I wrote serenely, just the way I eat pancakes. Now I'm afraid." Taking more pains, Chekhov won more acclaim. He became a friend of Tolstoy's, who praised everything except Chekhov's dramas. "You know, I cannot abide Shakespeare," the old man explained in a sort of anticompliment, "but your plays are even worse...
...stream of harsh-sounding consonants, and its dialogue is a succession of jagged-edged monosyllables. Altogether, it is a novel calculated not to warm the reader but to awe him-a familiar feat for British Novelist James Hanley, 61, whose past novels have won him critical, but not popular, acclaim for their cold fury. Herbert Read has called Hanley a "great realist." and C. P. Snow writes that for "sheer power he is not surpassed by any contemporary...
While Reporter Piser's singing might not bring critical acclaim, his Latin is hard to fault. A native of Detroit, Piser, 31, studied for the priesthood and taught Latin at a boys' prep school before he turned to journalism. When he interviewed the Pope for this week's cover story, they conversed in Italian, and got along very well. Pope John inquired about Piser's family (he and his wife Susan have an eleven-month old daughter), and when the reporter remarked that he would like to have ten children, His Holiness launched into a warm...
...with his archfoe, India's leading warlock, V. K. Krishna Menon. Though Zafrulla was an early champion of Indian independence, he never became a crusader or an inmate of political prisons like Nehru, preferred instead to work for an evolutionary agreement with the British, won sneering acclaim as "Britain's favorite Indian...