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Unhappily, the kind of contradictions that have marked Kerensky's life also mar his book: while it is not a failure, neither is it a triumph. Judged solely as history, it tells nothing that cannot be found in any good standard text on Russia. As an autobiography, it dwells lovingly enough on Kerensky's childhood and student days, but once he reaches maturity it becomes exasperatingly vague; he never discusses his home life or makes reference to his friends. As an eyewitness to and a participant in the greatest social upheaval in history, Kerensky is even more disappointing...
...Everyone is everyone," says F. Hilary Stevens, a lady poet just this side of 70. "Only you and I are more so." The beneficiary of this advice is Mar Hemmer, a moony young man who has just concluded an alliance with a sailor. The two have that in common: Hilary was once married to a man, but manifestly prefers her own gender. They both write poetry too. Between Mar's visits, Hilary sandwiches an interview with two reporters from a literary magazine. This gives Poet-Novelist Sarton, who is just the other side of 53, an excuse to review...
Seawall in the Street. North of the seaport of Valparaiso, two hills suddenly collapsed into mud, trapping a 700-passenger train between them. At Vina del Mar, seaside playground of rich Chileans, boiling waves hurled huge boulders from the seawall into the streets. Farther south near Valdivia, the naval ocean-going tug Janequeo was dashed against rocks and sank; 43 of 72 crewmen died...
...more every year. Gibran, who coveted both fame and riches, died too soon to reap most of this harvest. His will left everything to the place of his birth, Bsherri. But except for Gibran's body, which was sent home to be entombed in the monastery of Mar Markis, Bsherri has little to show...
...last week boycott he did. First, French officials were forbidden to at tend any policy-making Common Market meetings. Then France's Jean-Marc Boegner, permanent delegate to the community's Brussels headquarters, abruptly returned to Paris without so much as an au revoir to Common Mar ket President Walter Hallstein...