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...recordings, and later to such refinements as note reading. While the course is designed only for a musician's formative years, at least 100 of Japan's professional violinists have come out of the Suzuki school. So successful is his method that the New England Conservatory, the Eastman School and the Oberlin College Conservatory have started Suzuki-type programs...
Daniel P. Moynihan, director of the Harvard-M.I.T. Joint Center for Urban Affairs, catalyzed negotiations which resulted in an agreement last week between Eastman Kodak Co. and the Rochester, N.Y., Negro organization, FIGHT...
...early days, Max Eastman was a fiery socialist editor (the Masses, Liberator), a dedicated sexual adventurer and a noisy defender of Communism. Since the 1940s, he has been a sometime roving editor for the Reader's Digest, a proclaimed expert on Russian skulduggery, and a boastful chronicler of his youthful capacity for hell-raising (Love and Revolution...
Since he is now 84, the title of this book might suggest that Eastman has finally turned to a contemplative study of morality. Not so. In writing these painfully simplistic essays on the lives of Buddha, Confucius, Moses, Socrates, Plato, Mohammed and Jesus, Eastman plainly still sees himself as an eternal Peck's Bad Boy gleefully provoking shrieks of outrage and accusations of heresy from the Yahoos. Mohammed, for example, was a "neurotic and savagely cruel old man," and Moses established a dictatorship "that for absolute control and bloody-handed cruelty has few rivals in history...
...Eastman achieves the ultimate in bad taste in his essay on Jesus, whose strictures against fornication, he suggests, "must have been sustained by floridly passionate friendships among men." Says Eastman: "The picture of Jesus and his 12 male companions, one of them spoken of as 'the beloved disciple,' wandering about Palestine together, must ultimately provoke the interest of our all-inquiring psychologists." So would this book, if it were worth the trouble...