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...Negro elite known as the Niagara Movement (its first meeting was held near Niagara Falls in 1905). Declared Du Bois: "We claim for ourselves every right that belongs to a freeborn American-political, civil and social-and until we get these rights, we will never cease to protest and assail the ears of America with...
When William James entered Harvard, he had made up his mind to become a scientist. After two years as an undergraduate, he convinced himself that he was best suited not for science in any strict sense, but rather for the broad scientific concerns of medicine. Doubts continued to assail him, however, during his first year and a half in the Medical School...
Improving the Breed. As a freelancer, Havemann is thoroughly atypical. His LIFE retainer, along with his articulate typewriter, shelters him from the premonitions of disaster that assail so many of his colleagues. So avid are magazine publishers for Havemann work that he does not even deal through an agent, except for his books...
Behind the sword dancing and cymbal clashing of the bestseller lists, where titles assail the eye from ads and authors assail the ear on panel shows, there are books that glow and grow with a life of their own, "discovered" and talked up by readers rather than literary promoters. Currently sparking such a small-scale chain reaction is a strange and touching little first novel called Stern. It is giving Author Bruce Jay Friedman, 32, who has published some short stories and who works in Manhattan as editor of an adventure magazine, a coterie reputation as a new novelist with...
...good that they have furnished him with what amounts to a new career. Although English critics grumble a bit about the blandness of many of Klemperer's concerts, they are more than willing to put up with the old man. Occasionally, they point out, the old black moods assail him-throwing him into fits of profound depression and prompting performances of exalted feeling...