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Anne Woodward Pusey, the proper and dignified wife of the former President, today was awarded a Doctor of Humane Letters. The citation read: "Gracious and radiant lady, devoted wife and mother; her friendly concern for the families of Harvard made a true partnership of the presidency...
Christopher Ellis and Verna Harvey, however, are radiant and accomplished as the children, and Brando, 20 years on from Stanley Kowalski, still has the presence to make bullying cruelty captivating...
Attuned to this theme, Bond's play is vaguely set in Japan in what might be the mid-19th century. The central figure is the great Japanese poet, Basho (Robert Symonds). He is on a quest for some radiant shaft of wisdom. Instead he encounters a power-mad dictator, Shogo (Cleavon Little), who establishes a great city, but it is overthrown by invading colonialists garbed in the Union Jack and blasting away with howitzers and Christian hymns. Edward Bond, a 36-year-old Londoner, took exactly 2½ days to write the play and uses four words to explain...
...eight years. In 1967, he was appointed Senator for life. Beyond Leone's personal qualifications for the job, there was one other reason why many Italians were ready to forgive the Deputies for their indecision and rejoice in the final selection. That was Vittoria Leone, 42, a radiant beauty, who as the new hostess of the Palazzo del Quirinale will rival-and, said some, perhaps overshadow-Madame Claude Pompidou of France as the most beautiful of Europe's first ladies...
...Compleat Naturalist: A Life of Linnaeus by Wilfrid Blunt. 256 pages. Viking. $14.95. The study of 18th century science can be an ennobling exercise. Outstanding men rose to survey and catalogue Nature's radiant data into logical systems. In Sweden, Carl Linne -Linnaeus to the world-collected, named and scientifically organized plants for the first time in history. Wilfrid Blunt's richly decorated biography admirably illustrates how Linnaeus' single mindedness and plodding devotion to stamens and pistils laid the foundation of modern botany...