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...disease but not AIDS? Why Beverly Hills but not St. Louis? Cole Porter but not Leonard Bernstein? Muammar Gaddafi but not Francois Mitterrand? Bogart but not Olivier or even Cagney? Such questions guarantee that the book will indeed spur discussions all summer long, but perhaps not the ones the author intended...
...success, Suzanne ends up in a drug- rehabilitation clinic feeling like "something on the bottom of someone's shoe, and not even someone interesting." Fisher, who is the daughter of Eddie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds, has recently disclosed her own struggle with prescription barbiturates. Suzanne, admits the author, is a "character that's fairly close to me -- an actress living in California with strong tendencies to be obsessive." In fact, Carrie still blames herself for the fact that her father left the family when she was two years old. "I'm still reeling from it," says Fisher. "It makes...
Alan Bloom, the author of "The Closing of the American Mind," bemoans the relativism which he says holds away over the minds of the young. All things are thought to be equal--good and bad are merely labels, and therefore mean nothing. But one wonders if its complement--mindless absolutism--and the conviction that the world is made up of some angels and some devils, bodes any better...
With a resonant baritone voice that rumbles out of a burly figure topped off by a scraggly helmet of gray hair and an untidy beard, Bork commands attention by sound and sight. After 34 years as lawyer, professor, author and judge, this bear of a man has a professional reputation that tends to portray him as straitlaced, rigid, predictable. But there are a few twists. The predictable conservative venerated Socialist Eugene V. Debs as his boyhood hero, and his vote for President in 1952 was for that saint of the liberals, Adlai Stevenson. The man who was raised a Protestant...
David Edwin Harrell Jr. of the University of Alabama in Birmingham, author of a Roberts biography, notes that in the 1950s, raisings were claimed by several revivalists. To Harrell, the surprise is not that Roberts is making the claim but that he did not do so before...