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This year, nobody does that better than Mel Torme. Although he co-wrote The Christmas Song, the classic Nat King Cole made famous, Torme has never made a Christmas album before. From now on, no Yuletide celebration will be complete without him. With the exception of two instrumental tracks that sound like refugees from some other album, Torme serves up a convivial mix of jazzy standards like Sleigh Ride, traditional carols like Good King Wenceslas and elegant ballads like Christmastime Is Here. All go down as easily as nicely spiked eggnog on a chilly December...
...hypocrisy. A lot ofthem wouldn't defend free speech unless it wasdirected at them and unless they were the victimsof censorship. At any given time at a universitythere are only going to be a few handfuls ofpeople who genuinely believe in neutral freespeech for everybody. Mostly, as Nat Hentoff putit so well in the title of his book, its FreeSpeech for Me--Not for Thee...
...Nat Lewis, a teaching fellow for Literature &Arts A-66, "Myth of America," said, "Harvardstudents are paying a lot for their education, andare getting short-changed by this...
...years ago. Back then, it had 4,000 students and anchored the black Chicago community where I grew up. Today, with enrollment down to only 1,171, there is talk of closing the three-story, 88- year-old brick structure that is the alma mater of such celebrities as Nat King Cole, Sam Cooke and Dinah Washington as well as hundreds of black business and professional leaders. "Although the school is not what it was back in the '60s, it certainly does do a lot for this community," says Lovelace. "A lot of students look upon this school...
...visual life are Johnson's religious subjects, such as the beautiful tempera drawing Ezekiel Saw the Wheel (circa 1942-43). After the war he began a series of paintings of Fighters for Freedom: political figures (Chiang Kai-shek, Churchill, Nehru and others) and icons of black history, such as Nat Turner hanged on a tree. They are mostly feeble, lacking the iconic power and brilliantly felt color of the earlier work. By 1946, for all intents, Johnson's life as an artist was over. He made a return trip to Denmark but sank into insanity in Copenhagen, where the police...