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...President, this was "a triumph for freedom as huge as any victory won on any battlefield. Today the Negro story and the American story fuse and blend...
...Dreamer. Both Cal's regents and its faculty are high on Heyns. To the regents, he represents a fine blend of diplomatic tact and no-nonsense firmness. "He is strong but open-minded in dealing with young people, though not so wild a dreamer that he will go off into orbit with them," says Mrs. Norman ("Buff") Chandler. "He's a man who wants to be working in the tomorrow of education," adds Financier Norton Simon, "and tomorrow is already here at Berkeley." Faculty members are impressed by Heyns's demonstrated emphasis on teaching at Michigan, consider...
Oscar Levant's public image, if he still has one, is a blend of an exhibitionistic hypochondriac, an acerb wit, and a concert pianist who knows far more about music than he ever applied to the keys. All these Levantine facets faithfully reflect the man; or, to put it another way, he reflects them. The distinction is academic. After a lifetime largely devoted to his own self-construction, Levant himself probably cannot draw the line between the real Oscar and the one he invented. This book comes as close to defining it as its author will ever...
...collection and selected 24 gracefully wrought, highly polished little gems. A favorite hero is the trickster figure, who appears in many guises (as a taciturn bumpkin, a crafty samurai, a modest wife, a voluptuous virgin) and unfailingly triumphs. But the Japanese joker is a special breed. A blend of Socrates and Till Eulenspiegel, he serves as gadfly to his ritualistic feudal society, sits in judgment on its fools and fakers. These stories establish him as a considerable literary creation...
...measuring the resulting chemical change, and recording the results on adding-machine tape or computer cards. Now the company is beginning national distribution of a new shampoo-base hair coloring and this fall will introduce a line of facial makeup with three colors in one box so women can blend their...