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While printing presses ran day and night to reprint the full document in various editions, our job was different: we went to work to excerpt the report, cull its most significant detail, and summarize its meaning in a special nine-page section...
Stephen Dell and Mary Seager will present an excerpt from a novel and short stories, and Sidney Goldfarb will read some new poems, in the Lamont Forum Room this afternoon...
...Word of Caution. On crossexamination, Waller brought out Beckwith's militant segregationist sentiments. Beckwith admitted writing a letter to a Jackson newspaper in which he said: "I shall bend every effort to rid the U.S. of integrationists, whoever and wherever they may be." As Waller read the excerpt, Beckwith leaned forward to caution him solicitously: "I want you to understand; and where there is humor intended, I want you to laugh and smile; and where it is serious, I want you to be serious...
...excerpt from a novel, Horowitz accomplishes the difficult job of having a character inside the story relate another story; a slight stiffness of style hardly detracts from the chapter's interest. Hillman displays a flair for style with his first sentence: "Jo swept in with a querulous wind, she all flushed and gasping, it cold." Donald Bloch's "Metasis," although hard to follow, is eminently readable...
...their resettlement in the U.S. The Twentieth Century (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). A Japanese spy in Pearl Harbor before Dec. 7, 1941. Repeat. The Theater of Tomorrow (ABC, 7-8 p.m.). A special on the Repertory Company of Lincoln Center, narrated by Elia Kazan, featuring a brief excerpt from Arthur Miller's new play After the Fall, performed by Jason Robards Jr. The Voice of Firestone (ABC, 10-10:30 p.m.). Dancer Rudolf Nureyev, Singer Florence Henderson, Cellist Michael Flaksman...