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Rocking the Boat, by Gore Vidal. Tart darts at some hidebound U.S. foibles by a young and politically active writer of many parts...
...Step Ahead. The results seem to support Clock's conviction that audiences are far less hidebound than most concert managers think. In his first two seasons of handling the Promenade Concerts, total attendance fell off−but now it is impressively high. Says Tastemaker Clock: "We give them what they'll like tomorrow. We are one step ahead. If you are always trying to please them you are one step behind...
Freed by Blindness. Born in Buenos Aires, Borges stayed to live and write, though there was plenty of reason for a writer to move. As a young lyric poet, he was condemned by the hidebound traditionalists who dominated Argentine literature. Later, when writing prose, he ran afoul of pro-Nazi Dictator Juan Peron, who banned his books. But by doggedly pursuing his writing, Borges has brought literary excitement to a country that experiences it only rarely. He has also established his own reputation among small but demanding groups of readers in Argentina and around the world. Plagued by an inherited...
...Adams Papers, edited by L. H. Butterfield. The first four volumes of a projected 100-volume collection of the diaries, memoirs and letters of a remarkable family of statesmen reveal the U.S.'s second President, John Adams, as a pragmatic, hidebound Yankee who could fight for rebellion against England, shape the Declaration of Independence, and tangle with the most sophisticated minds in Europe-yet always find time to investigate local farming methods...
Though Adams became skilled in the subtleties of diplomacy, he remained at heart a pragmatic, hidebound Yankee who viewed Europe's sophisticated society with suspicion. Far from being awed by Franklin, who was lionized by the French, Adams found the old man to be more interested in wining and dining than in the job of persuading the French to help the embattled young nation fight against the British. "The Life of Dr. Franklin was a Scene of continual discipation," wrote Adams. "He came home at all hours from Nine to twelve O Clock at night." Though Adams faithfully recorded...