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...Ingber actually did experience the concert, then her review of Mr. Stulberg was motivated by simple kindness. This, I suggest, is detrimental to your--or any--isolated academic environment. Such unwarranted flattery can only help to reinforce unhealthy or mistaken practices. All too soon will Mr. Stulberg discover the harsh and objective realities of the outside world. As a reviewer and a former reviewee, I would respectfully suggest that your reviewing and editorial staff understand that honest criticism of unhealthy traits, when used properly, can be an enhancement of the academic society and the learning experience. --Charles Carner
...else to eat, and most of the prisoners lost 20 Ibs. or more; eight of the 14 contracted malaria. "Our captors were very edgy," recalls Mrs. Lillian Phillips, a member of the Christian Missionary Alliance who was captured along with her husband Richard. "But there was no brutality, no harsh treatment...
...unlikely that we'll ever find out the story behind his reunion with Joan Baez. Bob and Joan go back a long time. In the early days in the Village, he thought her voice too pretty, that the world was ugly and needed to be sung about in harsh tones. But she fell in love with him -- he aroused this wierd maternal feeling in her, the way he seems to with most women who he meets. She took him along on one of her big tours and endured him when he got drunk and self-indulgent (he was once booed...
With a womanliness that is more maternal than sexual, Hopkins is most convincing when she evokes the fire and flood of up-tempo gospel numbers. But she is no blues singer. When neither love nor liquor could quench Bessie's misery, her harsh sounds of loneliness could bring an entire audience to tears. Bessie sang from pain, Linda sings from joy. She cannot crush her optimism. Hopkins ain't Bessie, it is true. She is, nonetheless, a champ...
Little, in her first speaking appearance in Boston, delivered a harsh attack on the judicial system in her rambling, informal remarks, which were interrupted with frequent applause...