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...Gregory has written a memoir of the first half of his life. His account of growing up in a comfortable, mildly eccentric Milwaukee clan, drifting into radical politics in the '20s and discovering the depth of his commitment to poetry is sometimes a near hypnotized surrender to a series of rather static reveries...
Sajer can write flowery asides to the non-German civilian: "Shall I ever deserve pardon? . . . Can I ever forget?" But his real peer group then-and now -is that absolutely disciplined iron man, the German soldier. As an Alsatian (he even wrote his memoir in French), he admires with the special fervor of the semi-outsider...
...place, supporting herself first as a factory worker and later as a teacher. In 1956, Mandelstam, along with many other victims of Stalin's terror, was posthumously "rehabilitated" and cleared by Khrushchev. A few of his poems have since been published in the Soviet Union. But not this memoir. In her country, Nadezhda Mandelstam's only published work is a doctoral thesis in English philology, entitled Functions of the Accusative Case on the Basis of Materials Drawn from Anglo-Saxon Poetic Monuments...
Fortunately, both doctor and patient survived. At 42, Nolen is now chief of surgery at Meeker County Hospital in Litchfield, Minn. But The Making of a Surgeon is no tale of easy triumph -or comfort to people headed for the hospital. The point of this impressively honest memoir is that surgeons learn by doing, and patients often suffer in the process. As Nolen tells it, trial and error is still the only way to develop the skill and gall that a first-rate surgeon requires...
...years Shirley MacLaine has starred in a series of hectic comedies and adventures, often playing the heart-of-gold hooker (Irma La Douce, Two Mules for Sister Sara). Now, in a jaunty memoir, she puts forth the proposition that her own life has really been a lot more interesting. Most movie stars think that way, actually, and not a few of them have committed it all to paper. What makes "Don't Fall Off the Mountain" different from the usual drivel is that Shirley wrote it herself-no ghost, no collaborator, no pix and, alas, no visible editor. Though...