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Fagen was re-elected as president, Elgin K. Eckert became vice-president, Christine M. Millett was reelected as treasurer and Matthew P. Leingang was chosen as secretary...
...first novelist, gave us Rayona Taylor, the 15-year-old, part black, part Native American heroine of A Yellow Raft in Blue Water. You couldn't help falling for Rayona. She was plucky, pretty, buffeted by fate (her Indian mother Christine dies during the novel, and Elgin, her lackadaisical black father, is seldom seen) and crazy enough to enter a bronco-riding contest disguised...
...fury abates with Marcella, one of Bridie's daughters. Recovering in a TB sanatorium, she falls in love with Earl Taylor, a handsome young black man who delivers groceries. Their son is Elgin, and his daughter is Rayona. Dorris, whose own ancestry is Irish, French and Modoc Indian, writes that "the past ruled the present with unsympathetic dominion." And until Rayona, this is true. With her, the future is April going on May. Her reappearance at the end of this intricate and brooding second novel cools like a spring breeze...
...Turkish nation? German and Turkish claims on the Trojan antiquities certainly ring hollow, particularly when you consider that the frieze of the Parthenon and other sculptures taken from the Acropolis in Athens, the crowning symbol of the birth of democracy, still reside as part of the controversial Elgin Marbles in the British Museum. I am sure that the return of these carvings to the descendants of ancient Greece would have "obvious nationalistic appeal," and it would certainly "make scientific sense" to display them in their proper home, in a museum in Athens near the Parthenon. JOANNE ANDREADIS Baltimore, Maryland...
Great athletes reinvent their sport. They reveal that the game can be played in a way that no one before had imagined. In basketball, Bill Russell showed that great defense spelled even better offense. Elgin Baylor showed that basketball was played in the air, not on the ground. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar revealed that a seven-footer could be as graceful and mobile as players a foot shorter. Jordan combined all the exemplary skills of the greats who preceded him in one leaping, gyrating package. Sometimes it seemed as though he did everything better than anyone else had ever done...