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...student leader," a "pied-piper" of young idealists. He enjoyed young people and befriended them, treated them as adults; it was not rare to find Allard Lowenstein, hours after a speech at a university, squatting Indian-style on the floor of a dormitory common room discussing, in an "uncannily lucid manner, what must be done about Rhodesia or Vietnam or Mississippi or Harlem." And young people identified with his "casual, rumpled eloquence" and followed him--to Mississippi in the Freedom Summer of 1963 and to New England to knock on doors for Eugene McCarthy...
...Called Lucid and Fair...
Abram Chayes, Frankfurter Professor of Law and an authority on international law, called "Living with Nuclear Weapons" a "lucid and fair statement. I think it will be a standard book on these issues." He added that he had criticized early drafts as "over-Hobbesian," but the authors later assured him that "that had been toned down...
...obvious pride. The two other sons and five daughters drop by when they are in the neighborhood for visits of unpredictable lengths. The atmosphere is relaxed, bantering and full of mutual affection. Mailer's once terrible temper apparently left few scars on his children. Says Robert Lucid, an English professor at the University of Pennsylvania and Mailer's authorized biographer: "I think he's had great success as a father. With all eight of them, you'd think he'd have a disaffected child somewhere, but he doesn...
...anomaly on a staff of editors whose average age is under 30. Strout will be hard to replace, his journalist friend I.F. Stone says, because his thinking was firmly rooted in a "day-to-day reporter's bits of insight and vivid glimpses." Nor will Strout's lucid style, his knowledge and integrity be easily matched. Editor Hendrik Hertzberg and Owner Martin Peretz hope to find a successor who is content to remain anonymous, as Strout was for a long time. That is asking a lot in an age of celebrity journalists and in a Washington that resents...