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...made every woman feel that she too can do something for her community -and still be a conventional wife and mother. She got them up from the bridge tables." After her exit in January, Lady Bird may edit her White House diary into shape for publication as a book-a prospect that has publishers brandishing generous offers. When the Johnsons marked their 34th wedding anniversary last week, Lady Bird presented her husband with a copy of an entry from her diary dated Feb. 13, 1941: "Big day! ... Tonight I went to my first (will it be my last and only...
...backdrop of his work is beginning to include the New World: "I see the vague outlines of a book-a Russian emigre in America harks back to his youth, reflecting on how he began to lose hope." He muses: "My disappointment in my own country has been so bitter. Our generation of writers hoped that after de-Stalinization started in 1956, we might restore Russian literature to its mother, European culture. But since the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, there has been no chance of change. Now real writers don't even bother to submit their work...
...comedy called Knockout, in which a clothes designer buys a boxer as a tax shelter. For football fans there is Dan Jenkins' Semi-Tough, which began shooting in Dallas last week, with Kris Kristofferson and Burt Reynolds. Says Jenkins: "The script is really a sequel to my book-a sort of Son of Semi-Tough. " For hockey nuts there is Slapshot, starring Paul Newman. Newman insisted on doing his own skating during the violent sequences and looks, as a result, as bruised as Bobby Orr after a bout with the Philadelphia Flyers...
This lack of moral imagination is clearest in the book within the book-a love story of Albert Speer and Adolf Hitler. It is a romance without queerness or pathos. It is simply the reminiscence of an acolyte still spellbound after all these years. "Isn't it understandable that even now the image of the enthusiastic Hitler comes to mind?" he writes, early on. Later a guard marks a significant milestone. Speer writes: "Today would be Hitler's birthday. How many birthdays I spent with Hitler in the Berlin chancellery, with delegations paying homage to him, with grandiose...
...releasing the first 50,000 copies of its Standing Liturgical Commission's proposed draft for a new Prayer Book. The 1,001-page volume will be presented in September to the church's 1976 General Convention. If it is then authorized to replace the 1928 Prayer Book-a modest revision of the 1662 book that is currently in official American use-the 1979 convention may adopt the first wholly new liturgy for U.S. Anglicans...