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...street are probably very boring to talk to." Jong grew up in a Jewish household in Manhattan, attended Barnard College and earned a master's degree in English literature from Columbia. Both Jong and Isadora are poets; both had brief marriages to fellow students, then married American-born Chinese psychiatrists. Most of the novel, says Jong, is "an interweaving of fiction with reality...
...personal representative to the crumbling French Third Republic in 1940, later wrote about the fall of France in Assignment to Catastrophe. Spears devised Charles de Gaulle's last-minute escape to London and helped him organize the Free French forces. Spears' first wife was the American-born novelist Mary Borden (Margin of Error), who died...
Aside from Herbert Witherspoon, who died within weeks of taking over in 1935, Chapin is the Met's first American-born general manager in 77 years. It was appropriate therefore that Chapin should take the opportunity to announce, as his first official act as manager, that at long last Soprano Beverly Sills will make her Met debut in 1975 in Rossini's Siege of Corinth...
...Walter Brown trophy is given each year to the top American-born college hockey player. McManama, a resident of Belmont, is the third Harvard player in three years to receive the trophy. Joe Cavanagh won the award two years ago and Dave Hynes took the honor last season...
Cleansing Agent. Too many Greek Orthodox congregations have become what Iakovos admits are "social clubs labeled with the name of a saint," a fact that many of his church members are beginning to recognize. In a survey of American-born parishioners last fall, Iakovos found, the "greatest need" cited by 87% of the respondents was for "more religious enlightenment and edification." The Orthodox, says Iakovos, "must not be afraid to break away from the masses," must become less secular, less materialistic, more concerned with the real meaning behind the formalities of their faith...