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Holroyd's biography is, he says, the first major one of Shaw since a spate of centenary tributes in 1956, and among the first in which the subject was not an unacknowledged co-author. Holroyd was chosen by the beneficiaries of Shaw's estate -- the British Museum, London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and the National Gallery of Ireland -- and in consequence appears to have been able to unearth some new nuggets, although he offers no footnotes and has put off detailing his sources until after publication of his third volume. The advance from Holroyd's British publisher, Chatto...
Perri Klass '78, a pediatric resident and author of The New York Times Magazine article, "Are Women Better Doctors?" said she was also disillusioned with the male medical world because of its lack of sensitivity to female issues...
...Doomed by | a hereditary disease, lonely, indomitable, sustained by her faith and her work, the Southern Catholic saw herself as a lifelong outsider. When she died at 39 in 1964, she left a legacy of gothic tales obsessively concerned with characters she called "more or less primitive." The author displayed no biases. Blacks are sometimes sympathetic; just as often they bring trouble. The moral force of religion can be redemptive, or it can lead to violence and death. Women may prove enlightened, or they may be evil incarnate. Only one thing is certain: no good deed is ever forgiven...
...short orientation is Alexander Kira, a professor of architecture at Cornell. Kira is the utter antithesis of public rest-room grunge -- a dapper, courtly figure who carries a silver case for his imported cigarettes and keeps a silk handkerchief in his breast pocket. He's the author of a highly regarded study, The Bathroom, and he's in town for a convention about bathrooms in the home...
...bridged? At times Terkel is overtaken by despair: "What had presumably been our God-anointed patch of green appears to be, for millions of us, a frozen tundra." Yet the author cannot maintain a long face. After repeatedly exposing the country's down side, he expresses his own second thoughts on the American Dream. He decides to roll the dice with America's eternal resource: the altruistic young. They "may reflect something . . . unfashionable for the moment and thus hidden away, something 'fearful': compassion. Or something even more to abjure: hope...