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...that the novel is either lugubrious or totally morbid. It is by turns funny, harrowing, crude, ardent and artless. Its most notable quality is an astonishing immediacy, like a series of snapshots taken at high noon. The story, scarcely disguised autobiography, covers six months in a young girl's life, beginning when she goes to New York to serve on a fashion magazine's college-editorial board. It ends when she emerges from a mental hospital after a breakdown...
...ardent supporter of Nixon in 1960, Hoffa could be useful to the President if he were released before the 1972 election. Despite his imprisonment, he is still worshiped by the rank-and-file of the Teamsters, which has become the nation's largest union with some 2,000,000 members. What Hoffa says still counts with the Teamsters. The decision about whether or not to release him rests, of course, with the Federal Parole Board, which has a Nixon-appointed majority. The board said that it would not review Hoffa's case until next spring...
...always so disdainful of authoritarian belief. As a poor Brahman in India, he was rigidly versed in orthodox Hindu observance. His father was not only a devout Brahman but an ardent Theosophist as well. When Krishnamurti was only 14 and already a budding mystic, he came to the attention of Annie Besant, onetime intimate of Shaw and then head of the Theosophical Society.* She adopted the young Indian and proclaimed him the incarnation, or avatar, of the "World Teacher," the divine spirit that in Hindu mythology periodically takes human form (as in Buddha) to lead men to truth. She sent...
Hard-Line Successor. Though a measure of impatience in Moscow was most likely a factor in Ulbricht's exit, many analysts attributed his resignation chiefly to ill health. Ulbricht is an ardent health faddist who used to do rigorous daily exercises and still quaffs great quantities of a carrot-colored health drink. But for some time he has been unable to put in a full ten-hour day at his desk. He departed more gracefully than any East bloc party boss so far. He was able to hand-pick a successor whose views are as hard-line...
...Black Panthers. Only a month ago she was marching in Cambridge to protest the Government's treatment of Angela Davis. Only last week she delivered the welcoming address to a feminist rally on Boston Common and she is slated at the Washington antiwar rally on April 24. An ardent Women's Liberationist, she makes frequent speaking appearances at high schools and colleges, arguing for abortion on demand and job equality...