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Dates: during 1960-1969
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EDWARD LEAR, THE LIFE OF A WANDERER, by Vivien Noakes. In this excellent biography, the Victorian painter, poet, fantasist, and author of A Book of Nonsense is seen as a kindly, gifted man who courageously tried to stay cheerful despite an astonishing array of diseases...
...MARX BROTHERS AT THE MOVIES, by Paul D. Zimmerman and Burt Goldblatt. Next to a reel of their films, this excellent book offers the best possible way to meet (or revisit) the Marx Brothers in the happy time when they had all their energy and all their laughs...
...remained active. She continued to see visitors, oversee the children's activities, keep up with her responsibilities as a member of the board of the Bedford-Stuyvesant Corporation, and make plans for "the foundation," the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial. She also supervised the publication details of Bobby's book Thirteen Days, right down to selecting the kind of paper to be used and vetoing some of the advertising because it stressed Bobby's role in the Cuban missile crisis at the expense of Jack Kennedy...
...religion. At one point, she thought seriously of becoming a nun (to which Bobby quipped: "I'll compete with anyone, but how can I compete with God?"). Her sisters recall her sitting on a horse backstage at Madison Square Garden, waiting to go on, frowning intently at a book. In accordance with her sodality pledges, she was finishing up her half-hour's spiritual reading...
Furthermore, the booklet reprints, from last year's February Negro Digest, Hardin's article entiled "The Uses of the Afro-American Past." This essay, whose title pays homage to Herbert J. Muller's magnificent book, The Uses of the Past, is one of the finest Negro Digest has published...