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...Caroline and John Jr., the Emperor brought figures of a soldier and an Ethiopian girl, each carved in ivory. Jacqueline Kennedy, making her first ceremonial appearance since the birth and death of her infant son, presented the Emperor's granddaughter, Princess Ruth Desta, 33, with a leatherbound guidebook to the White House, three art books and a vermeil dresser...
...intrigued by what is certainly one of the longest, most difficult and most astonishing critical studies ever written about one writer by another. Whole pages of Saint Genet could have been cut. Line after line is unintelligible to anyone but a skilled metaphysician. What remains is an appalling guidebook to a nether world...
...Miss Z. Subsequently, it became perfectly understandable to the audience that the persistent shop girl would not only improve the writers manners and make him a satisfied shop keeper, but get him to fall in love with her in the bargain. The play's final moments, when the guidebook writer becomes aware of his affection for her and finally accepts her proposal of marriage, were played with an intensity that ended the already successful production on a warmly delicious note...
Bryher's small, shapely book, like the handful of minor historical classics in which she has previously sought to trap various troubled and far-off times (Roman Wall, Beowulf), is nobody's guidebook to the important events of a historic day or decade. But it offers the details and textures of a particular age so pervasively known and felt by the author that it does not have to be clumsily insisted upon as scholarship. The figures who move in Bryher's historic landscape are neither makers nor victims of history. They are men, seen small, but with...
...essence of Cornell is freedom," gloats one professor. "You're king of your classroom." Student life is equally free; attendance is not taken after freshman year and upper-class drinking in rooms is unrestricted. The student guidebook even recommends "sour hour" at a local tavern noted for TGIF parties ("Thank goodness it's Friday"). As in White's "godless" day, Cornell still has no religion department. As campus speakers, it welcomes not only