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Such virtuosity is put to even more effective use in Cambridge Seasonal, which I would call his finest work. In this paean to an academic community, Freeman's generous treasure of words does not seem overlush or recondite. He wields the recherche with deftness and then undercuts it with a wonderful transition to the commonplace. Part III ends with Longfellow "Englishing his purgatorio ... while a spirit-lamp warms the coffee up." Part IV shatters this academic fantasy and brings us back to earth...
...Side Story, and their first child is due in December. With the success of How to Succeed, Morse has finally developed confidence in himself, and the brat in him may be departing forever. He stops the show with a song, delivered into a mirror, that is such a moving paean to self-love it probably makes Narcissus roll over in his grave and take another look into the pool. It is called I Believe in You. At last, Bobby Morse really seems...
...calmer paean would show that he has more in common with the rest of us than otherwise. In the first place, he doesn't draw very well, which establishes him as our pure blood brother. Second, like most of the others he has borrowed a good part of his technique. Third, he deals more in indignities than profundities. Fourth, he has good days and bad days...
...foresight. The Republicans are faced with issues which neither they nor the voters of the state had confronted before Meyer's surprising election in 1958; their only choice has been to appeal to the voter's fears. Their candidate, Governor Robert Stafford, has alternately been forced to sing a paean to American military strength and to label Meyer "dangerously naive...
...world with a Ph.D. in economics. In the '30s he was a quasi-Marxist (teaching at Harvard, Sarah Lawrence, Williams) who viewed the U.S. as ripe for fascism. When the country survived, Lerner got a crush on it, three years ago produced a sweeping, vibrant, 1,036-page paean, America as a Civilization (Simon & Schuster; $10). Last fall the admiring Ford Foundation sent him for a year to Delhi University's Indian School of International Studies to soak graduate students in U.S. lore-and in his own passion for action...