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...STILL FELT by Isaac Asimov Doubleday; 828 pages...
...prolific professor has produced more than 200 books, as well as a feast of science-fiction stories, articles, essays and verse. Yet according to Isaac Asimov, the repast is prologue. For many of the author's previous works have been written to earn a living; the latest, his 216th, is a labor of love. Its subject: the author's favorite, Isaac Asimov. Heavy enough to produce bursitis and double the price of standard scifi, the second installment of Asimov's autobiography appears formidable. It turns out to be even more entertaining than Volume I, In Memory...
...that year's class. Harvard's historical attacks on the Afro-American Studies Department, the DuBois research institute, and the Afro-American Cultural Center are three additional areas of harrassment and insensitivity to Black students. The denial of tenure to outstanding scholar and great friend of Black students Ephraim Isaac is another. If I wrote of the harrassment of Black students at the hands of racism among Harvard students and faculty I could fill many large volumes...
...surprising conclusion that few authors can untangle themselves from the bewildering signals of a misunderstood past. Psychoanalysis occasionally helps individual patients but offers small counsel to an emotionally troubled culture. King concludes, rightly, that even Faulkner's "transcendent" achievement in his much admired short story "The Bear" leads nowhere. Isaac, the fatherless heir, who analyzes his past by plodding through his grandfather's ledgers and talking it out--shrink/client style--with his uncle, recollects his past and so avoids repeating its mistakes. He renounces his slave and plantation holdings and becomes, with Faulkner's sledgehammer Christian symbolist touches, a carpenter...
...have to wonder if the GBL title is worth it. at soldiers Field BRANDIES (12) AB R H BI DiCarlo, cf 4 2 1 0 Banks, 2b 4 2 2 1 Giardano, If 3 2 2 3 Perdios, rf 4 1 1 1 Carpenter, ss 4 0 0 0 Isaac, dh 5 1 1 1 Russomagno, 1b 5 1 2 3 Klofas, dh 4 1 1 0 Bruci, c 1 1 1 0 Caputo, c 3 1 3 1 Pokony, pr 0 0 0 0 TOTALS 37 12 14 10 HARVARDS(14) Pauer, ss 5 2 2 1 Pearce...