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Reasoner's style has kept him rising through CBS echelons until he now delivers the Sunday night television news and a daily radio essay as well as continuing his wry documentaries on the English language, chairs, women and other necessities. He also narrates special programs and often substitutes, as he did again last week, for Cronkite on the network's flagship early-evening newscast. This season, Reasoner has been a mainstay on 60 Minutes, a Tuesday-night television newsmagazine that ap pears every other week and on which he alternates quarter-hour features with Mike Wallace. This week...
Less radical members of M.L.A. were appalled. "If the M.L.A. starts taking political stands," said Executive Council Member O. B. Hardison of the University of North Carolina, English department, "it may spell the death of this organization. This is an attempt by 300 people to control 28,000." On the contrary, says Kampf: "The association should stimulate its members to personal and active concern with educational and social issues...
...remorselessly intellectual and the one that has made the fewest concessions to modern journalism. A paper of interpretation, speculation and realistic conclusion, it possesses an uncanny ability to foresee developments. Calm, unhurried and placid, it consistently represents an intelligent left-of-center line. (It plans to begin publishing an English-language weekly version this winter...
...tenth of the Strangers and Brothers novels, Lord Snow's melancholy, quasi-autobiographical saga of the rise of Lewis Eliot from lower-middle-class obscurity to knighthood. In many of the previous novels, Sir Lewis' empirical eye focused acutely on the intricate and polished parquetry of the English Establishment as he proceeded through the corridors of power. In The Sleep of Reason, that same cool eye is cast on more amorphous matters as the author struggles with formulations about such things as free will, responsibility and human nature. Recently C. P. Snow informed the press that the eleventh...
Shrewdly, Foster places Cary in the nonconformist English tradition of Bunyan, Defoe and Blake, with its preoccupation with individual responsibility and the morality of action. He gives to Cary's friend, the critic Lord David Cecil, the first and last words on Cary the man: "Something at once heroic and debonair in his whole personality suggested a gentleman rider in the race for life, [but] the gentleman rider was also a sage and a saint." Alas, biographies of less sterling gentlemen than Gary have made far livelier reading...