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American Dilemma-the famous study of U.S. Negroes that was cited by the Supreme Court in its 1954 school segregation decision-Rose had a tough legal precedent to contend with. Last year, in New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, the Supreme Court ruled that false criticism of a public official is not libelous unless the official proves actual malice. And since the court did not define "public official," lower courts have been moving toward an inclusive definition that would cover just about anyone in any capacity who becomes a figure in "public debate...
...playing them--that is enviable. When Davidson was pushed from the opening contemplative mood in "Little Sun" to a driving one by his ever-energetic drummer, he began playing octaves in a hard and fast manner, getting that same orchestral sound out of the piano that made Lalo Schifrin famous when he played piano with Dizzy Gillespie...
...Sportswriters have Iyricized over Williams' cat-like rhythms, but Dressler just bombs. He concentrates so intently he probably wouldn't even notice if the stands collapsed. He steals balls and whips down court so fast the rest of the team has to lope to get into position for the famous shuffle offense. As the offense goes to work. Dressler seems to know exactly what the other four are doing; he spots openings, passes off, sets up scores...
...Italian, his name means "golden apple," or more commonly, "tomato." But his cognomen, insists Arnaldo Pomodoro, has nothing to do with the fact that he has grown famous sculpting massive spheres cast in polished bronze (opposite). Rather, he is a kind of dissatisfied Aristotelian, seeking the true nature of form inside matter. "For me," he says, "the sphere is a perfect, almost magical form. Then you try to break the surface, go inside and give life to the form...
Since the deaths of Faulkner and Hemingway, John O'Hara is unquestionably the most famous of living American novelists. Yet he is notoriously discontented with this grudgingly conceded eminence; he is given to complaints that he never won the highbrow vote or the Nobel Prize. And critics who find his work unsatisfactory put him into a considerable swivet...