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Gorky, however, should not be commented on he should be read, and the Gorky Trilogy. (Childhood, My Apprenticeship, and My Universities) serves as a good introduction to the Soviet master's iron words. Though most of the 150 people whom Childhood attracted to M.I.T. Saturday night came to hear spoken Russian, few were left disappointed by a sound track blurred with age. The film's simple tragedy and exaltation more than compensated...
Security Syndrome. Gradually the reader comes to see that the book is really an indictment of education as a class-apprenticeship. The college warden is a businessman whose carefully cultivated eccentricities (e.g., gardening seminude) are bogus, the college chaplain is a neurotic without faith, and the scholars are without scholarship. Typified by Chote, the non-U students of Sturdley are obsessed to an indecent degree by love of money and of security. In this situation, the usual English envy-hatred syndrome focuses upon the American undergraduates who resent being taunted for having money, especially when they don't have...
...very existence of a "major in theater arts," inevitably implies, or anyway allows enthusiastic students to believe, that their college training is thorough enough, expert enough and exhaustive enough to justify them in considering professional careers. It tacitly suggests that this extensive and academically accepted program is a professional apprenticeship in itself, however much the catalogue protests...
After a photographer's apprenticeship in Boston, Armenian-born Yousuf Karsh set up his own portrait studio in Ottawa because he yearned to photograph prominent men. Now a courtly 51, Karsh of Ottawa is as renowned as most of his subjects. Last week the Canadian capital paid the world's foremost portrait photographer the unusual compliment of an exhibition at the National Gallery...
...cars, the prancing polkas from Souick's Social Hall, the plaintive hymns filtering from store-front churches. His huge, im mobile mother and most of his neighbors were Poles, and there were street fights with encroaching waves of Jews, Italians, Syrians and Negroes. Young Ike-o served an apprenticeship as sneak thief, pimp, and hanger-on of Catfish Gedunsky, a small-time politician, until the army drafted him before the start of the Korean war. Months later, he was out again on a dishonorable discharge, but dressed up as a paratrooper and Claiming a hero s wel come back...