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...Mormons check their roots religiously. But who has turned up so many distinguished kin as Mormon President Spencer W. Kimball? According to the Church News, Kimball is related, at times to the seventh cousin once removed, to John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Franklin Pierce, Chester A. Arthur, Grover Cleveland, Herbert Hoover, Richard M. Nixon, Gerald Ford and an eclectic lot of non-Presidents including John Foster Dulles, George Gallup, Aaron Burr, Nelson A. Rockefeller, Walt Disney and Humphrey Bogart. Though the Church News makes no mention of it, Kimball can boast such a fruitful family tree largely because his grandfather...
...less seriously ill, precisely the constituency that has shifted toward quick Pop treatments. A 1976 survey by the American Psychoanalytic Association showed that the average psychoanalyst had 4.7 patients under treatment, down from 6.2 a decade earlier. Applications to the Freudian training institutes are also declining. When Psychoanalyst Herbert Hendin director of the Center for Psychosocial Studies in Montrose, N Y., applied to the prestigious Columbia Psychoanalytic Clinic for Training and Research a generation ago, more than 120 students competed for nine openings. "Now," he says, they're lucky to get twelve applicants for roughly the same number of spots...
NONFICTION: A Distant Mirror, Barbara W. Tuchman ∙Albert Camus, Herbert R. Lottman American Singers, Whitney Balliett In Memory Yet Green, Isaac Asimov The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor, edited by Sally Fitzgerald ∙Thoughts in a Dry Season, Gerald Brenan ∙To Build a Castle-My Life as a Dissenter, Vladimir Bukovsky...
NONFICTION: A Distant Mirror, Barbara W. Tuchman ∙ Albert Camus, Herbert R. Lottman American Caesar, William Manchester ∙ American Singers, Whitney Balliett ∙ In Memory Yet Green, Isaac Asimov ∙ Letters of Flannery O'Connor: The Habit of Being, edited by Sally Fitzgerald Thoughts in a Dry Season, Gerald Brenan
Since Albert Camus's death in a 1960 car crash, these images have totally obscured the writer. Journalist Herbert R. Lottman's voluminous work attempts to sweep away rumor and legend in the hope that a man will emerge. But Camus is much too elusive for mere biography. After 753 pages, the subject seems as melodramatic in death as he was in life...