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...AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MISS JANE PITTMAN, by Ernest J. Gaines. One of America's best but least-known novelists pursues the enduring seasons of the heart as an ancient black woman reviews the troubles she's seen since the Civil...
...AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MISS JANE PITTMAN by Ernest J. Games. 245 pages. Dial...
...Jane Pittman is the ancient of ancients, nearly 110 years old, on a Louisiana plantation. Recollecting her life for a tape recorder, she remembers herself first as a slave child, fetching water for Confederate soldiers in retreat, then for Yankees in pursuit. A Yank corporal named Brown tells her to look him up in Ohio. After the Emancipation Proclamation, she sets out to do just that. Most of the ex-slaves impulsively migrating north with her are killed by white-trash patrollers. The moral is fundamental to Gaines' temperament: the more things change, the more they seem to stay...
RUNNING BACKS: STEVE OWENS, Oklahoma, 6 ft. 2 in., 216 lbs.; and CHARLIE PITTMAN, Penn State, 6 ft. 1 in., 197 lbs. This year's Heisman Trophy winner, Owens rewrote the record books with career totals of 3,867 yards rushing and 56 touchdowns-the latter eclipsing the three-year mark of 51 set in 1946 by Army's legendary Glenn Davis. He impressed one scout as "a crusher, with good balance-one of the great competitors of the '60s. He does it all the hard way." Though he lacks the blinding speed of Gale Sayers...
...third revolution" may lie a redefinition of insanity. Crisis intervention already implies this by assigning priority to the patient's crisis, which, at that moment, is more important than understanding what produced it. "Any time a person is desperate, something is wrong around him," says Dr. Frank S. Pittman III, director of psychiatric services at Grady Hospital. "The person says 'I am in an impossible situation' and 'I need help' in several ways-by saying it when no one is really listening, by attempting suicide, by beating up someone or by going to the hospital...