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WIDENER LIBRARY--The 50 miles of shelves and two and a half million books which comprise this building render it not the third largest library in the world, but the fourth. Outstacking it on a world scale are the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., The New York Public Library, and the often overlooked Bibliotheque Nationale Francaise in Paris. Widener is the third largest in the country...
...very medium of a musical revue tends to render Harlem's depiction somewhat roseate. Not all Harlem was involved in the nightclub and speakeasy scene, and the numbers racket wars hardly deserve the elegant sentimentalism the production emphasizes. Even when a grimy, overalled Keith Davis breaks out into a powerful "I'm Gonna Tell God All My Troubles," the show's smooth cosmopolitanism implicitly undercuts his simple spiritual...
...education of women should always be relative to that of men. To please, to make us love and esteem them, to educate us when young, to take care of us when grown up, to advise us, to console us, to render our lives easy and agreeable. These are the duties of a woman at all times, and what they should be taught in their infancy. --J.J. Rousseau, Emile...
...arms so they can defend themselves is better than having to do it for them." As for the subcommittee's charge that American employees could be held "hostage" by Tehran, the Shah last week declared that in the event of war, the Americans "will not be forced to render any services to Iran...
That was precisely the point. By autumn, buyers hope, the basic new Saint Laurent silhouette will begin to render obsolete the soft unstructured dresses and tailored pantsuits of the early '70s. The raves and somewhat overblown reporting of the collection by Women's Wear Daily and the New York Times reflected the yearning of the hard-pressed U.S. fashion industry for a replay of the late Christian Dior's New Look, the style that so profitably transfigured women and their wardrobes...