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...professor of English at the State University of New York at Buffalo, Fiedler subsequently wrote a scathing memoir entitled Being Busted, in which he blamed the raid largely on the fact that he had sponsored a campus group that advocated legalizing marijuana. As attitudes toward marijuana laws eased, he recalls, "I kept thinking that if I went to jail it would be grotesque, even comic." He had no lack of grounds for appeal-the girl spy repeatedly changed her story and the legality of the bugging was at least questionable-but when New York's highest court struck down...
...Another former associate of the composer challenges the validity of the Craft portrait. She is Lillian Libman, 59, Stravinsky's personal manager and sometime member of his menage. In And Music at the Close: Stravinsky's Last Years, a memoir that will be published this fall by W.W. Norton, Libman contends that Stravinsky was actually more abstemious with words and less waspish and argumentative than the Craft collaborations suggest. Indeed, she maintains, many of the words are not Stravinsky's at all but Craft's. Libman calls into question Stravinsky's supposedly keen interest...
Weller--a graduated from Brandeis in '65--has put together a memoir of the middle nineteen-sixties, those years of "Good Day Sunshine" when a peace march could still be a lark and graduate school a respectable alternative. His characters live precariously on the brink of graduation: Bob, a music student who contemplates submitting to the draft as the simplest way to end it all. Kathy, who's convinced that by telling Bob he gave her her first orgasm she's given him the confidence to go on to a brilliant career. Norman, a graduate student in mathematics who, with...
...four, John House man (then Jacques Haussmann) had spent two birthdays on the Simplon-Orient Express. It is an image with which to connect the 70 years that have gone into this urbane, fascinating and graceful memoir. Houseman was and is a restless, slightly exotic voy ager through life and drama...
...Eskimo portraits, pure and sometimes lovingly comic, readers still have to resort to Gontran De Poncins' classic Kabloona (1941). But this memoir by a young Scotsman, who escaped...