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TIME FOR AMERICANS (ABC, 4-5 p.m.). "White Racism and Black Education." Jonathan Kozol, schoolteacher and author of the award-winning Death at an Early Age, leads a discussion on the effects of white prejudice on Negro education, specifically in the public school system of his native Boston...
...Author Gore Vidal on actors in politics: "I made my contribution to the problem back in 1964, when I was casting the movie The Best Man, which dealt with two men running for the presidency. I offered a part to Ronald Reagan, who said he was not interested in a small part but that he was interested in playing one of the candidates for President. I then sent back word that I did not think Ronald Reagan would be credible as a national candidate. So much for my gift of prophecy...
Died. Konstantin Paustovsky, 76, Soviet author (The Story of a Life), and dean of his country's literary liberals; of heart disease; in Moscow. Although a traditionalist in much of his own work, Paustovsky defended such rebels as Boris Pasternak and Yuli Daniel, was so well entrenched that the Kremlin could only let him have...
...characters sound intriguing. There is a rich, young widow, Marie Forbes, who yearns to do good by performing positive actions; she starts on her career "quite purposefully" killing her swinish husband with a heart attack -resulting presumably from sexual exertion. The author builds her characterization by having her use foul language as often as possible. But as Mark Twain once remarked of his wife's swearing, "she has the words but not the tune...
...author is managing editor of the Aurora, Knoxville College's student newspaper. He is attending Harvard this summer and will return to Knoxville, Tenn., in the fall...