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...though, Egyptians are more likely to revile than revere him. Symbolic of the change in attitude is an increasing number of Egyptian books, articles and speeches that have cast Nasser in the guise of a latter-day Ivan the Terrible, guilty of misrule and injustices...
Perfect Woman. In his attempt to be dutifully definitive, Biographer Clark plods doggedly, day by day, through all 98 years of Russell's life: from his miserably unhappy childhood spent in the morbid solitude of his grandmother's house ("She would call me by mistake the names of people who were dead") to his final years as the thundering, latter-day Ezekiel of the nuclear disarmament movement. The result is a work that is more thorough than thoughtful...
...Silverman, author of "How Will I Feel Tomorrow?", yesterday called himself a "latter-day prophet" because of his "considerable work on the prediction of physical illness." Silverman said he can isolate ten "cues" which can predict physical illness before symptoms appear...
...PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE OF NIXON BEFORE WATERGATE BROKE: There was little about Nixon that you all−and behind you the people−did not know. I don't think there were very many latter-day revelations. There has been a lot of postwar Germany about this. It's very hard now to find anybody who voted for Richard Nixon...
...Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell-the first live TV variety series since the Ed Sullivan Show rode out in March 1971-was under way. It lived up-and down-to expectations. Roone Arledge, the hard-driving Barnum of ABC Sports, who developed the latter-day vaudeville along with Cosell, had burbled, "We want people to feel, 'Boy, I better not miss this tonight because Lord knows what will happen.' " But Cosell, master of ceremonies, treated the show as another episode of N.F.L. Monday Night Football. "Look," he said, shrugging, "this is not a meeting between Rabin...