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Armed with a glass of dry sherry, Mike is an amiable conversationalist, listening politely and with a nod of his head now and then returning answers to difficult questions with the open frankness and straight-from-the-shoulder approach that has won him many friends...
...they haven't come out of hiding with the first issue, as Mr. Robinson freely concedes. His poets in Number One are generally his friends from the Cape. Mr. Robinson says Harvard poets likely will get the nod next time, and it will be a good thing, no matter how reluctant they are, because the poetry he prints in his first affair is not entirely up to scratch...
...into the acquaintance and friendship of his most distinguished of contemporaries. Many have made the pilgrimage to I Tatti; some to engage Berenson in conversation, his favored "verbal art," others in search of wise counsel, yet others ask, and even cajole, the "world's greatest art expert" for his nod concerning the authenticity of works of art. Berenson has always proved affable, crudite and incorruptible. There were those, like Isabella Stuart Gardiner of Boston, who built collections on Berenson's word. The opinion of a man with lofty aesthetic aspirations soon acquired a market value and before long Berenson found...
Recognized Rights. Five minutes after noon, Chief Justice Earl Warren's nod brought the N.A.A.C.P.'s special counsel, Thurgood Marshall, slowly to his feet; to him, more than to anyone else in the room, this session, however important, was just another battle in a long, long war. Almost serenely, Marshall reviewed the legal history of the case. The N.A.A.C.P., he said, sought only one thing: protection of the right of seven Negro children to stay on at Little Rock's Central High School. "The rights we are seeking protection for are not rights that...
Lest the audience mistake all this for pure uplift propaganda, the librettists give a dutiful nod to the flaws that can be found even in the Soviet soul. A comedy trio of class conscious careerists who are more interested in self-advancement than the good of the group are exposed and punished. A bourgeois, bureaucratic superintendent is lampooned in the hassle that arises from the assigning of apartments. But through it all, the hero and the heroine work at their interior decoration and wait patiently for the fruits of love and Marxism...