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...failed attempts. "In an age where the cult of youth is so valued, emulated and pursued," notes psychiatrist Andrew Slaby, "we have been unable to respond to our children and teens when they are in the greatest pain." Slaby's No One Saw My Pain: Why Teens Kill Themselves (Norton; 208 pages; $23), written with Lilli Frank Garfinkel, is a canny and compassionate attempt to make, and help others to make, such a response...
District of Columbia delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton and two other lawmakers plan to carry out their own, unscientific study. Each will mail about 20 test letters to various destinations to see how long it takes for them to be delivered. Several lawmakers want a more radical approach: ousting Runyon. Maryland Representative Albert Wynn alleges that under Runyon, skilled postal workers have been dismissed to save money and African-American employees have been fired at a disproportionate rate. Says Wynn: "We can no longer allow Runyon to continue to destroy the second largest agency in the Federal Government...
...world Mickey Mouse and Marilyn Monroe, the Watts riots and the Mansion murders, not to mention the kosher enchilada? Los Angeles is a metropolis of 85 cities with no "center of gravity", as Peter Theroux writes in one of the witty, observant little essays that make up Translating LA (Norton; 271 pages; $21). Its user- unfriendly downtown center resembles Gertrude Stein's famous description of Oakland. (Where is the there?) Born as a city of immigrants, Tinseltown, the Rainbow City, Iowa-by-the-Sea -- the sobriquets are legion -- remains one: children in its public schools come from families that variously...
...experimentation. Against significant opposition from faculty, overseers and alumni, he transformed Harvard from a small, northeastern college into a national university by courageously adding and expanding graduate schools, enlarging the student body, recruiting faculty, broadening course offerings and liberating students from a strict set of course requirements. As Richard Norton Smith explains in his book, The Harvard Century, "For those in search of a pattern, there was [Eliot's] bold assertion that an open mind, trained to skeptical investigation, was preferable to complacency of any kind...
...Joan Peyser did in her 1987 biography, Bernstein. But here too he withholds judgments: the spectacle of Bernstein and his daughter Jamie both falling in love nearly simultaneously with the German pianist Justus Frantz surely calls for amplification. The moving finger, though, having writ, moves on -- to the 1973 Norton Lectures at Harvard...