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...blond movie comedian (Foxes, Serial) who rose to fame as Major "Hot Lips" Houlihan in the 1970 movie MASH; and Jonathan Krane, 28, a Los Angeles tax attorney; she for the second time, he for the first; at the Malibu, Calif., home of Actress Jennifer Jones and Art Collector Norton Simon...
...much discussed book, The Presidential Character, published in 1972, Barber categorized Presidents according to whether they were active or passive and positive or negative toward their job. In his new book, The Pulse of Politics (Norton; $14.95), Barber divides presidential elections since 1900 into three phases: conflict, conscience and conciliation. First comes a tooth-and-claw struggle: a stand-pat William McKinley vs. fiery Populist William Jennings Bryan in 1900, or Richard Nixon vs. George Mc-Govern in 1972. Then all-out conflict gives way to a rivalry of conscience, lofty moralizing in place of mere politics: Woodrow Wilson...
Pianist-author Charles Rosen will be the 1980-81 Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry. Rosen, who won the 1972 National Book Award for his "The Classical Form: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven," will give six Norton lectures and two recitals of Beethoven piano pieces next year...
Ultimately. Norton-Taylor shows, it was ideas that ruled Calvin and those around him. In God's Man those ideas are given a human dimension. The reader encounters Calvin's doctrines and doubts tossed in a mind as agonized as his tubercular body. The godfather of capitalism assures a rich man that wealth is part of God's plan rather than a sin-but at the same time condemns gouging employers and supports strikes. In one fascinating intellectual exercise, Norton-Taylor offers his own version of a Calvin text, the reformer arguing with himself in verse about...
...peculiar last request: he wanted to be buried in an unmarked grave. The wish was respected. Today no one knows the great reformer's final resting place. But the book offers an epitaph: "He meant what he said." The reverse is true for this imaginative biography: Norton-Taylor performs the considerable task of saying what Calvin meant...