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...meet Freeman Dyson as a nine-year-old child poring over--not Einstein's differential equations--but Edith Nesbit's utopia. This introduction is true to character. Dyson is not just a physicist; he's a romantic, a humanist and an optimist...
...sense, Actress Geraldine Chaplin brings very little to her television role of Lily Bart in Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth. Says Chaplin about the bustled turn-of-the-century gowns she wears: "I get to have a behind, which I don't have in normal life." But Chaplin has little sympathy for Lily, who ignores love in favor of a convenient marriage and who snuffs herself out with chloral after her reputation is compromised. Says Chaplin, who for 13 years has lived uncompromisingly with Spanish Director Carlos Saura: "I like playing her. I wouldn...
...Edith Lang Blake Detroit...
...some ways her importance resembles that of Eleanor Roosevelt, the most influential First Lady since Edith Wilson took control of the White House for more than a year during her husband Woodrow's illness. Mrs. Roosevelt acted as a traveling observer for her crippled husband as well as a partner in policymaking. She was, however, much more of an independent force than Rosalynn Carter is, publicly crusading for her own causes and making her own name. Lady Bird Johnson was also much involved in her husband's political life. "She was a partner," says Liz Carpenter. "Like...
...Harvard professors to be granted tenure is "unusual in a faculty that is not growing," Edith M. Stokey, secretary of the K-School, said last week. But recent expansions in the K-School have led to a larger faculty...