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Kirstein's lifework, as it happens, takes in a good deal more than dance. A poet, art critic and onetime novelist, he seems to have an aesthetic Midas touch that produces quality in virtually everything he takes up. At Harvard he established and edited the magazine Hound and Horn, which from 1927-34 was among the most distinguished literary journals. The Harvard Society of Contemporary Art, which he co-founded in 1927, became the prototype for New York's Museum of Modern...
Again masterfully increasing tempo with first-encore "Rock and Roll Is Here to Stay," Sha swings into "Hound Dog" to boost both the audience and the band to a trembling plateau of anticipation for the show's climax. And then, with a final burst of energy, a sweating and breathless Sha erupts into "Great Balls of Fire" for an intense and frenzied culmination of the crescendo...
...Hound of Heaven is still hellbent in pursuit of Graham Greene. That is not exactly news. And it is only a mixed blessing for Greene's characters, who in his new novel go through more than the usual torments that may or may not be signs of God's devastating love. But what an indulgence for the reader. Temporarily, at least, everybody can sidestep this fall's avalanche of novels-many of them apparently the work of rude boys rubbing sticks together to make fire-and enjoy a Promethean storyteller at work...
...14th century. Now the band has been joined by David Austick, a bald lay preacher and bookseller, and Clement Freud, an antic journalist and television personality who, besides being Sigmund's grandson, is best known to the British electorate for his baleful appearances with a blood hound named Henry in a commercial for dog food...
COVER Subject Sam Ervin is unlike most of the politicians that Correspondent Neil MacNeil has covered during his 24 years in Washington. "He has never been a publicity hound," says MacNeil; "he has never run a mimeograph to shoot off a daily barrage of press releases, hoping to get his name in print. Yet as a raconteur and one of Washington's hardest workers, he has always been well known to anyone dealing regularly with the Senate." Now, as chairman of the select Senate committee investigating the Watergate affair, Ervin is becoming equally familiar to the public. For this...