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...Louis Post-Dispatch: "Arrogance, insensitivity, sensationalism, the sounding of First Amendment alarms at every provocation-these have all lost the press sympathy." Such attitudes are particularly grating to a large segment of the public that has come to see the press as primarily interested in its own profits and renown. "There is no longer a prevailing feeling that the press is righting to right a wrong," says Chicago Attorney Don Reuben. "The sense is that the press is venal, out to make a buck...
Bill revered his grandfather, a colorful figure of local renown who mingled with some of Hollywood's top stars. Western Hero Tom Mix gave young Bill a cowboy hat, and at a dinner given by his grandfather, Bill and Shirley Temple were made honorary marshals. Despite this childhood exposure to movie stars, Clark never saw a Reagan film until last year, when the President finally showed him Knute Rockne-All American in the White House screening room...
Toko Shinoda, 70, lives and works here. She can be, when she chooses, one of Japan's foremost calligraphers, master of an intricate manner of writing that traces its lines back some 3,000 years to ancient China. She is also an avant-garde artist of international renown, whose abstract paintings and lithographs rest in museums around the world. These diverse talents do not seem to belong in the same epoch. Yet they have somehow converged in this diminutive woman who appears in her tiny foyer, offering slippers and ritual bows of greeting...
Sometimes it is possible to be too talented. Take the case of Leonard Bernstein, for example. The protean golden boy of American music, who will turn 65 in August, has justly won renown as a flamboyant conductor, an engaging proselytizer and an omnidirectional composer. Bernstein has conquered in ballet (Fancy Free), the Broadway musical (West Side Story) and the symphony (The Age of Anxiety). But in the past 20 years, it seems, the vast range of his talent has hindered rather than helped him, especially as a writer of serious music. In 1963 there was the embarrassment of the "Kaddish...
...arrival of Rozanov, a native Ennistonian of Russian ancestry who is also a philosopher of worldwide renown, does nothing to calm these waters. Rozanov, who is supposed to have all the answers, is rumored to be writing the book that will cap his brilliant career. Privately, he is in despair. His lifelong search for truth, for a logical edifice that will support the notion of morality, has arrived at a culdesac. He now admits that "at the bottom, which isn't very far down, it's all rubble, jumble. Not even muck but jumble...