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DIED. Meyer Levin, 75, prolific author and Zionist; of a stroke; in Jerusalem. Originally a Chicago newspaperman, Levin wrote novels, plays, documentary-film scripts and books of Jewish lore. His biggest success was Compulsion, a 1956 novel based on the sensational Leopold-Loeb murder case he later turned into a hit play and movie...
...nothing wrong about the moonshine of generalization when it comes after the sunny trifles of the book have been lovingly collected." The bulk of these lectures consists of rapt, minute scrutiny of such trifles. Nabokov does a virtual time-and-motion study of the daylong "dance of fate" between Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus in Joyce's Ulysses. He reads volumes into Flaubert's use of the word and in Madame Bovary. Under his microscope, the "flushed prism" of Proust's style reveals a particular rose-purple mauve as the precise color of time...
...efforts to amend them were squelched. To protest the platform's repudiation of the ERA, some 4,500 women (and a few men) marched through downtown Detroit as a sidewalk band mockingly played I Want a Girl Just Like the Girl That Married Dear Old Dad. But when John Leopold, a member of the Hawaii delegation, proposed from the floor that the platform be reconsidered, he failed to stir support from any delegation...
...conservative delegates and the party platform reflect a belief in an embattled unit, the traditional family, with a working father and a mother at home teaching values to the children. "Traditional family values," said Independent Hawaiian Delegate John Leopold, "is a term they use to describe a wish that we go back to simpler times, when the roles of men and women were different...
...most difficult task advertisers now face is to second-guess the mood of U.S. consumers. According to experts. Americans are more pessimistic about the economic outlook than at any time since the bottom of the 1957 recession. Detroit Schoolteacher Josh Leopold and his wife Marilyn, a clerk in a department store, are typical. "We've had to cut back on entertainment," says Leopold. "We just don't go out to dinner or the movies as often as we did. We've also eliminated a book club and decided to just put off painting the inside...