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Father Ronald Knox once observed, "The humorist runs with the hare; the satirist hunts with the hounds." Baying through this Russian blizzard of hilarity, Woody Allen, former rabbit, is at least trying to create a beagle. The fact that most of the time it comes out bagel should not discourage him. In any Allen film there can be only one winner: the viewer. · Stefan Kanfer...
...representing Harvard and lawyers for a New York-based labor union have met an average of three times a week before an NLRB hearing officer to present opposing positions. Frequently, University administrators such as Daniel Steiner '54, Harvard's general counsel; John B. Butler, director of personnel; and Douglas Knox, the Medical Area personnel head: are in attendance. Butler and Knox have served as witnesses for Harvard. Steiner simply observes. This issue in question is a petition by a group of Harvard employees to hold a union-forming election. The group is the Medical Area Employees Organizing Committee, an affiliate...
When Halston presented his fall collection in Manhattan last week, one model looked as if she dreamed she was at Fort Knox. Clad in long green Ultrasuede evening culottes and a creamy silk shirt open to the waist, she wore for toppers a bra of solid gold mesh. The bra was designed by Italy's Elsa Peretti, who explained: "It is worn as a jewel, it has a good feeling on the body and it is amusing. You can put it in a little bag and take it with you anywhere." For about $4,000, you can take...
...certainly of joblessness, or at best intermittent jobs, often of the most marginal kind. What has happened to the youthful idealism of the 1960's? My father noted in 1967 that: "Not since the founding of the Republic-when Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence at 32, Henry Knox built the artillery corps at 26, Alexander Hamilton joined the independence fight at 19, and Rutiedge and Lynch signed the Declaration of South Carolina at 27-has there been a younger generation of Americans brighter, better educated, more highly motivated than this one. In the Peace Corps, in the Northern...
History and politics are at least debatable. The Drury prose usually defies all discourse. It should be noted, however, that The Promise of Joy has nothing to do with cooking or sex. It is about a crisis during the first weeks of the presidency of Orrin Knox, whom Drury readers will remember as the Secretary of State in Advise and Consent, and a vice-presidential nominee in Capable of Honor. In this book Knox succeeds to the presidency after the assassination of Edward M. Jason, and he is called upon to decide nothing less than the fate of Western civilization...