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...expected, Beatrice is morbidly hungry for a man, though she hated the one she had and the only one she ever really loved was her father. Her problem is neurotic, but Zindel warps it into cultural dimensions it doesn't deserve. When her brother-in-law refuses to lend her the capital she needs to open up a tea shop and "get back on the map," Zindel would like to brand Darwinian America as the villain, but in spite of himself all the dramatic evidence points to Beatrice herself. She pits a tough exterior against ghetto inertia, but Zindel...
...Gilbert's comedie manque does not refresh. Like real life, it can even be quite a bore. Gilbert struggled manfully with the fact that the life he was filming did not lend itself easily to a dramatic format, that like most lives it essentially lacked the clear developments and resolutions of fiction. Not only did he edit his 300 hours of film down to 12, but he arranged his episodes out of chronological order, beginning with the last day's filming, New Year's Eve, 1971, and then recapitulating the previous seven months. From the first episode, Gilbert tried...
FORTY YEARS OF CHINA watching preceded Barbara Tuchman's six week visit to China in the summer of 1972. Behind her were two Pulitzer Prizes, the most recent for Stillwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-1945. Her authority as a pre-communist China expert lend weight to her insight into the tenacious Chinese riddle and she agreed to record her observations and impressions for the Associated Press and Harper's magazine. Notes From China consists of these and another previously published essay, the speculative "It Mao Had Come to Washington...
...studying or whatever they did. We didn't identify with them. When Harvard men voiced that age old complaint that conversation at the Radcliffe dining tables was vapid or boring we didn't rise to the defense of Radcliffe conversation, nor I might add, did we ever attempt to lend our own scintillating conversational gifts to Radcliffe dining halls. We were always the first people within earshot to agree. And so it was natural that The Crimson didn't cover Radcliffe and thus didn't cover-women very much at a time when some very interesting and very important things...
...have to be Jewish to like Leo Rosten." Where else, after all, could the one-liner addict of whatever persuasion be exposed to a barrage of ecstasy that includes the following punches: "May all your teeth drop out, except one-so you should have a permanent toothache." "If you lend someone money, and he avoids you you've gotten off cheap." "A man is not honest just because he has had no chance to steal." "Sleep faster, we need the pillows...