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...more senior Justices to a position as one of the court's most brilliant and intriguing members. Last week the public at large got a clearer view of Fortas' mind at work as Signet Books published his 64-page pamphlet Concerning Dissent and Civil Disobedience, a compact discussion of the issues that have been raised by what he calls "the most profound and pervasive revolution ever achieved by substantially peaceful means...
...campus is cold, compact, and Kafkaesque. Little new has been built on the campus since the 1920's; and its buildings are the repeated module of Italian Renaissance and New England architecture. It's very pretty in the summer. But most of the time students are there, they are knee deep in snow...
...public personality, he has become the leading spokesman for his own "lost generation" of the half-Westernized young. How lost is lost? Pretty desperately far out, as Mishima charts it. In Forbidden Colors, an ugly, aging novelist with a consuming hatred for women makes a devil's compact with a staggeringly handsome young homosexual named Yuichi. For a very cold cash settlement, this irresistible "Apollo molded in bronze" will exact the old man's revenge by systematically attracting and frustrating women-even to the extent of marriage...
...Lillie in drag: shoulder-length locks, tattersall sports jacket decorated with a sheriff's badge, plaid shirt and orange socks. He always carries a copy of the New Testament and lugs a soiled brown shop ping bag in which he always keeps such talismans as a dime-store compact (he uses pale Elizabeth Arden foundation makeup), two notebooks containing the lyrics of 500 songs, and, of course, his "dear, sweet" ukulele...
...instrumentalists, 50 dancers, 127 staff assistants, 193 tons of scenery and five tons of Russian edibles. When Rome's Piccolo Teatro Musicale arrived in Manhattan last week, there was a little less to be seen-a handful of singers and players, one slightly overweight conductor, and a compact bundle of slats, screws and canvas that weighed scarcely more than a ton. But when the slats and canvas were screwed together into a miniature Neapolitan theater on the stage of Carnegie Hall, the audience found plenty to admire...