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...Biographer Andrew Field, Nabokov: His Life in Part must seem like the roughest final exam of his academic life. Field, 39, is a New Jersey-born scholar who now teaches literature at Griffith University in Australia. He has had a working and personal relationship with his subject since the publication of Nabokov: His Life in Art (1967), Field's excellent study of the Russian American's novels and stories...
...like George Steinbrenner, Gene Autry, or Ray Kroc. If they offer Reggie Jackson $400,000 a year for five seasons, they take a costly risk which they gamble will prove fruitful. The competitive price of labor will, most certainly, prove prohibitive for someone like Minnesota Twins owner Calvin Griffith, who has no outside business to provide cash for premium players' salaries. The few teams without significant capital backing may, unfortunately, find it difficult to remain competitive...
TIME'S Thomas Griffith in his "Newswatch" [Feb. 7] must be challenged on his assertion that "by common consent, the two best newspapers in America are the New York Times and the Washington Post...
Ignoring today's mature, spirited, no longer provincial Los Angeles Times opens Griffith to a charge of Eastern seaboard provincialism. Griffith's "by common consent" certainly does not include those of us privileged to read and enjoy the finest newspaper in the West, if not the entire country...
...Harvard/Radcliffe have more equal numbers of men and women professors and professionals, until their budgets reflect an equal commitment to male and female athletic activities, until there is equal respect, encouragement, and opportunity for the achivements of women students, the option of women's colleges must be maintained. Elisabeth Griffith Fellow, Institute of Politics John Fitzgerald Kennedy School of Government