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...Partly because the older private schools were the only places where students could get an advanced education, such colleges produced most of the black leaders in America. Martin Luther King graduated from Morehouse College in Atlanta, as did Georgia State Senator Julian Bond. Former U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young and Novelist Toni Morrison graduated from Howard University, where ex-National Urban League President Vernon Jordan got his law degree. Historian W.E.B. Du Bois received a B.A. from Fisk University in Nashville...
There are two movies going on here. In one of them, a sober and artistically respectable novelist named Liz Hamilton (Jacqueline Bisset) fights several decades of writer's block to emerge, finally, as an archetype of contemporary feminist dissatisfactions. In the other film, her best friend and worst rival, Merry Noel Blake (Candice Bergen), is a sort of magnolia-dipped Judith Krantz. She writes money-making trash and leads a life to match her art. She does not end up any happier than her pal, but she certainly has more...
...German-French-Irish father was a business manager of the Cincinnati school system. The 105-lb. sophomore played 15 seconds of varsity football for Lockland High when "we were leading about 40-0." And like Reinhart, Berger served in the Army Medical Corps during the Berlin occupation. The aspiring novelist left his Columbia University master's thesis on George Orwell unfinished to marry Jeanne Redpath. During the four years he labored on his Berlin book, Berger summarized the Korean War for the New York Times Index. As a result, "I remember less about that war than any other...
...plot that Snow the ex-physicist unfolds in this posthumously published work of nonfiction is better than any that Snow the novelist invented in his romans à clef like The Search and The New Men. There is something marvelously Dickensian, for instance, about Ernest Rutherford, whose booming voice upset such sensitive instruments as Niels Bohr, the Henry James of atomic physics, who whispered his way through labyrinths of elegant theory to explain what Rutherford demonstrated. Then, with Einstein ("the best company of all the great physicists") hovering above the scene, the rest of Snow's pantheon is Introduced...
Rabbit may be stuck in the midlife doldrums, but Rabbit Is Rich positively hums with vitality. As a novelist, John Updike has never seemed more confidently in control of his material: in this case, an eerily representative American soul undergoing a summer and winter of discontent. Catastrophe no longer dogs Rabbit's heels. He is afflicted instead with dented fenders, with enough money to know that it will not buy him what he wants, whatever that may be. He is in the process of forgetting his dream, just as his city of Brewer in southeastern Pennsylvania has paved over...