Word: lind
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SOUL OF WOOD by Jakov Lind. 190 pages. Grove...
These disturbing fables might have as their epigraph the theme of Goya's nightmarish etching cycle, the Caprichos: "The sleep of reason produces monsters." With merciless humor, Goya gave the forms of grotesque man-beasts to 18th century hypocrisies. Jakov Lind, writing cheerily of cannibals and cripples in Nazi Germany, imprisons the reader in sweaty dreams of guilt. The guilt is not merely German. Lind's force lies in his ability to suggest that the sleep of reason in this century produced not only monsters but a monstrous complicity-a pact signed and mutually witnessed by murderers, accessories...
...first was at Corvallis, Ore.; Lind-gren's time was a so-so 29 min. 37.6 sec. One month later, at the U.S.-Russia track meet, he shaved 20 sec. off that time. Last week he ran the fastest 10,000 meters run by an American all year: 29 min. 2 sec.-winning by 70 yds. and waving happily to the wildly cheering crowd. No one, least of all Lindgren, has the foggiest idea how fast he can really run. "I'm not sure I can do any better than 29.2," Lindgren says. "But I sure hope...
...Flatbush, Woody flunked out of N.Y.U. and C.C.N.Y. in the same year. But at 17, he was already a success, writing gags for newspaper columnists. Earl Wilson mentioned his name to a show business public relations firm, and Woody was soon writing TV jokes for Herb Shriner, Peter Lind Hayes, Sid Caesar, Art Carney, Garry Moore. In one two-year period (he says) he wrote 25,000 gags. He now gets $1,500 for supplying a comedian with a five-minute...
...name is Leslie Uggams, and she has been in and around TV for twelve years. She appeared with Arthur Godfrey, Garry Moore, Sid Caesar, Peter Lind Hayes, Bob Crosby. She won $25,000 as a contestant on Name That Tune. Mitch Miller, as Columbia Records' artists-and-repertory man, saw her and signed her to a contract, starting her up the charts. As a TV performer, Miller invited her to sing along with him and finally made her a permanent star. It was a long pull. She was seven when she started...