Word: leon
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Quite a few of these American males are suffering from what Sociologist Leon Bramson calls the "Charley Gray syndrome," after the hero of John Marquand's novel Point of No Return. Having finally won his bank vice-presidency, Gray finds it meaningless-and far worse, he has no alternatives. As Sociologist Bramson sees it: "We have made it virtually impossible for people to try different kinds of careers in middle life without extraordinary risks." With depressing finality, Novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald declared: "There are no second acts in American lives...
Joining the walkout were Louis Stul-berg, president of International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, Communications Workers President Joseph Beirne, Berkeley Political Scientist Paul Seabury, and Leon H. Keyserling, former chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers. Representative Henry Gonzalez, a Texas liberal and Johnson ally, also quit. Everyone expected a hasty and embarrassed resignation from Vice President Hubert Humphrey, one of the founders of the A.D.A. in 1947, but his aides passed the word that Humphrey had quietly allowed his membership to lapse three years...
...LEON Kirchner is the Renaissance man of the Music Department. Pianist, teacher, composer, conductor, he seems to be in constant metamorphosis. As contemporary composer, Kirchner has been awarded a Pulitzer prize for a work that combines sounds produced electronically with those of a string quartet; as teacher of courses for music concentrators, he is tireless in his efforts to spread the gospel according to Schoenberg. Yet Friday night there he was, conducting the Cantata Singers and an ensemble of Boston-area professionals in a program consisting solely of music by J. S. Bach...
...EXODUS, Leon Uris...
...like those of a movie company on location. The staff that charted the course for the photographers and produced the color pages included Senior Editor A. T. Baker, Researcher Andrea Svedberg, Washington Correspondent Jerry Hannifin and Picture Editor Arnold Drapkin. The accompanying story is the work of Science Writer Leon Jaroff, Researcher Fortunata Vanderschmidt and Senior Editor Peter Martin. Their combined efforts made possible TIME'S trip this week into the "inner space" of the sea around...