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...259ft. It is easy to understand the performer's urge to do the improbable, the difficult, the unique, the best. Claiming a record, any record, provides massage to the ego, varnish for the pride and a tic of celebrity. To hold a record, in the words of Allen Guttmann, professor of American Studies at Amherst College, "is a uniquely modern form of immortality...
Cinema Kenmore Square, Midnight Underground-Walter Guttmann's "repulsive classic," The Grape Dealer's Daughter...
Subsequent United States' support of the Franco regime was attacked by Allen Guttmann of Amherst College. "When Dwight D. Eisenhower went to Madrid and shook hands with Franco--the first head of state to do so since Hitler--I felt there was something wrong. When we put bases in Spain, I felt ashamed to be an American...
...speakers will be Juan Marichal, professor of Romance Languages and Literatures; John Gates, an officer in the Lincoln Brigade and author of The Story of an American Communist; and Allen Guttmann of Amherst College, author of The Wound in the Heart. Peter D. Stansky, instructor in History, will preside...
...Surgeon Guttmann is probably the first man to use athletics as paraplegic therapy, and he is one of the most successful. Since 1944, he has trained 1,000 paraplegics at his hospital; although they will never leave their wheelchairs, 600 of them now live at home, work in offices or even on factory assembly lines...