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...student at Radcliffe. Since then she has read everything he has written that has been translated into English, and she is waiting impatiently for more of his poetry to appear. Sheppard, who was managing editor of Book Week before he came to TIME in 1967, is also an ardent Nabokov fan. "Ever since I first read one of his books," says Sheppard, "I have thought of him as a man apart. He makes it easy to tell who the minor writers...
...even give the correct answers" but who "do not really have a living belief which motivates their life." Against such believers, asked Cox, "how can we really use the label 'unbeliever' for people whose search for the transcendent is somehow more serious and many times more ardent? They may think of themselves as Marxists or scientific humanists or behaviorists, but 'nonbelievers' is not the name by which they know themselves in their own hearts...
...Block's most ardent champion is its reigning queen, Stripper Blaze (40-24-38) Starr. At 34, Blaze is still the liveliest ecdysiast on the Block and heads the bill at her own nightspot, the Two O'Clock Club, whose value she estimates at $500,000. "You have to change with the times," Blaze says. "I'm not against urban renewal, but Baltimore needs a place for conventioneers and tourists." Often half her audience is composed of women friends who work with her on various Baltimore charities. Blaze is respectable and respected, but she is sadly aware...
...come with the continued American support of the present South Vietnamese government, that this support has already made many who would otherwise have been friendly, if no to say helpful to the United States, bitterly anti-American. Recently, professor Ly Chanh Trung of the University of Saigon, an ardent Catholic intellectual, was impelled to say the following words in a speech entitled "Why Do I Want Peace" delivered before the Saigon Student Union...
Lena (Lena Nyman) is at once Yellow's nominal subject and central symbol. An ardent political activist, she carries radical, rabble-rousing signs and participates in all sorts of public demonstrations, including coupling with her boy friend Börje (Börje Ahlstedt) on a balustrade in front of Stockholm's Royal Palace. When Lena runs off to the countryside, Börje follows and turns her meditation into a Portnoyesque scene that is certain to get the film banned west of the Hudson and north of The Bronx...