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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...book is a chatty one. It is chock full of anecdotes about the famous, near-famous and, with the passage of time, obscure (read: boring) political figures of this century--all of whom she seemed to know. Edwards name-drops in the style she no doubt refined working as the society page editor fo the Chicago Trbiune for several years. Stories of working side by side with Ring Lardner and Charlie McCarthur are as interesting as the tales of life as a New Deal Democrat in Chicago society (one socialite slapped her for opposing Alf Landon). The experiences of later...

Author: By Jonathan H. Alter, | Title: A Passage For India | 11/15/1977 | See Source »

...work's most arresting dances--the cyclical theme exulting in the deepest pattern of all bodily life. If the overriding contrast in the Boston Ballet's performance were between a great classic's ethereality and a modern work's affirmation of the senses, there could be no doubt where the Company's own preferences...

Author: By Jurretta J. Heckscher, | Title: Etheriality vs. the Senses | 11/15/1977 | See Source »

...talents on only a few occasions, connected by periods of turning out nothing but trash, he should think about cutting back output, or staying away from meaty issues. Hamill must have written Flesh and Blood to be devoured and easily digested. His die-hard New York fans will no doubt eat up the sex and violence, in spite of the nutritional void

Author: By Laurie Hays, | Title: Sugar and Spice and All That Is Vice: That's What Robbins Heroes Are Made Of the Ringside | 11/15/1977 | See Source »

...topic for another book, and that in taking on this next project he plans to bring to bear what he is learning as a special adviser to Michael Manley's socialist regime in Jamaica, where Patterson spends five months a year. Drawing on this experience, Patterson should no doubt be able to offer some important insights, and it will be interesting to see what...

Author: By Mark T. Whitaker, | Title: The Noble Drive Toward Individualism | 11/15/1977 | See Source »

...will make out intricacies so delicate and subtle, so exact and compact, so full of knots and links, with colors so fresh and vivid, that you might say that all this was the work of an angel, and not of a man." The Book of Kells is and no doubt always will be the most sophisticated work of decorative art in the history of painting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Gold from the Dark Ages | 11/14/1977 | See Source »

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