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...toughest and most developed program is at Chicago, which currently offers 17 courses, ranging from a seminar on Moby Dick to a study of the novel and urban imagination dealing with Dickens, Balzac and Fitzgerald. Along the way to their Ph.D.s, students must master, among other things, five fields of religious study, including the Bible and the history of Christianity, the position of one major modern theologian or the entire body of one major writer's work, and one classic of criticism-plus two foreign languages, usually German and French. The most harrowing obstacle is an oral examination during...
...GREAT BRAIN, by John D. Fitzgerald, illustrated by Mercer Mayer (Dial; $3.95). In Mormon Utah in 1896, Tom ("The Great Brain") is the craftiest kid around. Whether figuring a way to make money when his father gets the first flush toilet in town or teaching a one-legged boy how not to be "useless," Tom is very funny; the illustrations are excellent...
...audacity of visual technique fits perfectly with the straight-forwardness of the narrative style. The unflinching sincerity of director and writer (Sidney Howard, with assisst from Ben Hecht and Scott Fitzgerald) transcends Margaret Mitchell's soap opera, giving Gone With the Wind the truly epic quality of the best films of John Ford. At the very least, it depicts the passage of time better than any other picture I've seen; we share with the characters the memory of scenes as if they had occurred 15 years before. Our sense of history is reinforced by the obvious visual deterioration from...
...illness; in New York. For almost three decades she presided over a dazzling salon as she and her husband mixed repartee and reason with such cronies as Al Smith, Harpo Marx, Gene Tunney, Ethel Barrymore, Bernard Baruch and Dorothy Parker, often at their Long Island mansion, which F. Scott Fitzgerald immortalized as the setting for The Great Gatsby...
...Dorsey, Simon provides little that is fresh on such familiar figures as Miller, Benny Goodman, and Duke Ellington, but he gives appropriate recognition to some of the brilliant though now largely forgotten ensembles of the period: the sizzling band headed by tiny, hunchbacked Drummer Chick Webb, featuring Ella Fitzgerald, which triumphed at Harlem's Savoy Ballroom in a 1937 battle of the bands with Goodman's group; the lush, colorfully textured Claude Thornhill band; the showmanlike Jimmie Lunceford unit, whose buoyant two-beat style influenced such latter-day bands as Billy...