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In March the distinguished former (and first Black) mayor of Atlanta. Maynard Jackson, delivered four brilliant lectures here. A man who skillfully guided his city through one of the tensest racial climates in American history (i.e. during the child murders) drew less than 10 Black undergraduates for all of the...
NONFICTION: Eleni, Nicholas Gage The Forties, Edmund Wilson ∙The Last Lion, Winston Spencer Churchill, William Manchester Lectures on Don Quixote, Vladimir Nabokov ∙A Private View, Irene Mayer Selznick ∙White Mischief, James Fox
Sometimes it is hard to take Irene Selznick too seriously-but only sometimes. A Private View is the story of how a bright, spunky tomboy from a beach-front house in Santa Monica surmounted advantages and an insufferable marriage to become independent and a successful Broadway producer. Only a hopeless...
The author married Selznick in 1930 and assures us that until then, David's father put him to bed nightly. The Mayers and Selznicks were among Hollywood's pilgrim families, and to judge from Irene Selznick's recollection, her father was its Cotton Mather. He preached the...
The tests are not specified, though Selznick surely could have passed trials in patience, level-headedness and dependability. These attributes were severely stretched during her life with David, notably just after his father's death when he departed for a lively wake while Irene was left with the funeral...