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Allen Drury, Fletcher Knebel, and now Tom Wicker, worthy liberal columnist for the New York Times and formerly chief of its Washington bureau...
Read's Heathcliff is not a stableboy but a contemporary Yorkshire parson's son who sulks because God did not make him an aristocrat. At times, an American reader is hard put to take Hil ary Fletcher's miseries as solemnly as he does himself- even if one grants that a second-rate British public school is "worse than prison" and that hell knows no torment like an Englishman at the hunt ball whose jacket fails to fit. Alas, The Upstart stipulates that exactly this sort of class embarrassment can still drive a dated Angry Young...
...Fletcher G. Watson, Shattuck Professor of Education, said that physics students find the universe "more understandable but much less orderly" at ages 20-22 than they did while in high school...
...bought Velásquez's portrait of his black apprentice, Juan de Pareja, for $5,544,000 -the highest price ever paid at auction for a work of art. To pay it, Hoving and his Acquisitions Committee had to liquidate the capital left in the museum's Fletcher Fund, about $6,000,000, and commit themselves to pay back at least a part of it, in yearly installments of $160,000 through 1976. In effect, the buying power of the Metropolitan's 17 departments had been partly mortgaged for several years in advance against one painting...
...Joseph Fletcher, an Episcopalian and a professor of medical ethics at the University of Virginia, is typical of those who favor abortion. In his opinion, the freedom to get an abortion -and the exercise of that freedom -represents an advance in social ethics. In fact, he says, the nation's increasingly liberal outlook is "a welcome trend away from the sanctity-of-life attitude toward a quality-of-life ethic...