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...book of American Dreams touches not one but a hundred men and women and, by implication, millions more. In an age of faceless polls, sociological tracts and psychobabble, politicians and historians would do well to discard ten pounds of printouts for every page of the author's impressive oral histories. The people, yes. Studs Terkel positively...
Hinds filed suit in U.S. District Court in 1978, charging that the ABA was violating his constitutional right of free speech. A judge refused to take jurisdiction in the case, so Hinds is now appealing the case in the Third Court of Appeals in Philadelphia, which heard oral arguments one week...
...clear idea often intimidate what I believe is the majority who do not, who are not sure of their tentative choices. Especially in a time of great uncertainty about the future, what is advantageous for postcollegiate life is invariably an ability to express oneself clearly in written and oral form, a minimum ability to handle quantitative material, and the intellectual flexibility that Harvard at its best encourages...
...their suit the Garveys charge Jordan with breaking an oral agreement to write a "favorable" account of the "special challenges" of their marriage. Instead, they say, his article contains innuendoes, "falsehoods, inventions, gaps and opinions masquerading as facts." Garvey, making an unscheduled appearance on his wife's show, described the profile as "just another opportunity for somebody to take a shot at people who stand up for what we believe in, and that's a strong family, belief in our religion, belief in doing everything we can for people, and I'm tired...
...Tonkin Gulf deception lets L.B.J. off the hook. Miller also fails to reflect strongly enough the extent of the damage caused by Johnson's Viet Nam policy. Eulogistic gloss tends to soften some of the harder truths. Perhaps this is the nature of oral biography. At one point the author notes that "memory is a gentleman." True. But when memory serves legend more than history, it becomes a gentleman's gentleman. -By R.Z. Sheppard