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...joined the elite clan headed by Don Quixote, chasers of chimera on the horizon which turn out to be windmills turning vapidly in the air. But Spain, that nurturer of fantasies and distiller of dreams, has witnessed the loss of more serious things than one's pants. In this century its seared soil has sucked up the blood of endless thousands of men and women who had a vision and were willing to risk their lives to see it realized...
...control and an awareness of the deterioration in the quality of our surroundings. As if this weren't enough, he adds a "civilizational malaise," the knowledge that "the values of an industrial civilization, which has for two centuries given us not only material advance but also a sense of clan and purpose, now seem to be losing their self-evident justification...
Died. Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr., 76, restless offshoot of one of New York's richest families; of a heart attack; in Miami Beach, Fla. Opting for journalism over college, Vanderbilt embarrassed his clan in Farewell to Fifth Avenue (1935), a candid volume of childhood memories that caused his name to be struck from the Social Register. Living and working in an elaborately furnished trailer-"I would rather be a vagabond than a Vanderbilt," he once wrote-he periodically skittered round the world to interview celebrities for various newspapers and magazines. He was married seven times, divorced...
...author is a sports nut now edging toward 50. He grew up in fashionable Merion, Pa., member of a distinguished, divided and furiously competitive clan. His mother, Historian Catherine Drinker Bowen (Yankee from Olympus), apparently never lost at any sport. Bowen dreamed of becoming a triple-threat back at Princeton but became a pedestrian first baseman at Amherst, then an editor in New York. Years passed. Sports stars grew younger. Bowen grew older. Came the day when he could no longer take comfort even from the presence on the sporting scene of elderly prizefighters like Archie Moore, or the ageless...
Rubber Doll. By now he is pretty sure of a good reception, but he has never taken anything for granted. He flopped with his first audience, the Northamptonshire clan of 53 among whom he grew up. "I wasn't a natural comedian. I was not funny at home. I entered talent contests, but usually the girl in the ballet dress won." Not even this humiliation was lost on Dale. He took ballet lessons, along with a course in "eccentric dancing"-an outre British art that Dale describes as "learning to move the body as if it had no joints...