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...favor--and it is significant, for many other memorialists fall into the trap--is that he completely avoids sentimentality or indulgence for his 18-year-old self. He makes no attempt to portray his friends or his earlier self as anything other than imperfect individuals. He appears to possess that higher form of egotism that prompted Oliver Cromwell to have himself painted warts...

Author: By Dwight Cramer, | Title: Such, Such Were the Joys | 5/16/1974 | See Source »

Hollywood, creator of America's next breed of immortals could possess them as completely. Representing for America the great internationalization of the great American dream, it created another race of stars apart, another generation of lucky creatures locked in another as different a world...

Author: By Emily Fisher, | Title: Red, White and Black Beauty | 5/3/1974 | See Source »

...freedom of the press, and end for all time the noble art of investigative reporting. The bill makes it a crime, punishable by jail terms of from three to seven years, or by fines of from $25,000 to $50,000, or both, for anyone authorized to control or possess classified information to communicate this information to anyone not authorized by the government to receive...

Author: By Ben Bradlee, | Title: Freedom and the Press | 4/23/1974 | See Source »

...Tigers possess some strength on the track, most notably a collection of fleet distance and middle-distance men. "We've got a very strong two mile relay team and a good group of long distance runners," an optimistic Princeton coach Larry Ellis said yesterday. Ellis said he felt the Tigers had a good chance if everyone performs "according to their potential...

Author: By James J.cramer, | Title: Thinclads to Face Docile Tigers Today | 4/20/1974 | See Source »

...delight, so beautiful it hurts, hypnotizing entire audiences sketch after sketch, show after show. Mobilizing every muscle in that gracefully compact body--down to the muscle that bends a thumb backwards at the joint to form a right angle of it--he becomes a vital embodiment of emotions that possess an intensity and beauty one rarely recognizes in the human form, no matter how present. In his famous pantomime, The Creation of the World, expressing the inexpressible for a fleeting moment he relates visually the most ineffable of all mysteries. Flocks of birds, fish, space, the breeze in the trees...

Author: By Janny P. Scott, | Title: Silent Witness to the Lives of Men | 4/16/1974 | See Source »

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