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...proclaims the meticulously researched new biography Marian Anderson: A Singer's Journey (Scribner), by Brandeis professor of music Allan Keiler. By 10 years old, Anderson was already known locally as "the baby contralto." But it would take an uphill fight, time spent in Europe, even the intercession of Eleanor Roosevelt, for her to triumph over discrimination in the U.S. It was only when she was refused a booking at Constitution Hall, the headquarters of the D.A.R., that Anderson, a singer of classical music, opera and spirituals, burst into the national consciousness. By the time she died...
...claims on the basis of what constitutes an emergency--rejecting one if, say, a patient who thought he had a heart attack turned out to be suffering from mere heartburn. "We are caught in the middle," says Dr. Stephan Lynn, residency director in the ED at St. Luke's--Roosevelt Hospital in Manhattan, where the medical staff has been cut 15% to 20% over the past five years even as the number of visits has risen 25%. "I get letters from patients every day saying, 'You made a mistake and put the wrong diagnosis on the chart...
Levin traces at least part of his get-there-now heritage to an old boss, David Lilienthal, one of the prototypical "great men" of the 20th century. A tall, owlish Midwesterner, Lilienthal rose to become an adviser to Presidents from Roosevelt through Carter, chairman of the Tennessee Valley Authority and then head of the Atomic Energy Commission after World War II. In 1955 he started a small firm called Development and Resources Corp. to bring power, water and communications to the developing world. In 1967, bored after just four years as a lawyer, 28-year-old Levin joined...
Einstein's insights are likely to continue to bear consequences far beyond their original scope. Whereas your runners-up for Person of the Century--Franklin D. Roosevelt and Mohandas Gandhi--responded greatly to stirring events, Einstein created new vistas through his own initiative. These three giants shared the quality of wonderment of a child at play. They were uncommonly tenacious in pursuing their goals and designed novel means to achieve them, yet they could laugh heartily amid arduous circumstances. Their examples will always shine. WILLIAM E. COOPER, PRESIDENT University of Richmond Richmond...
...moment to discuss global warming, which of course violates the law of 99.9 percent continuum. But note, for what it is worth, that weather has always acted fierce and screwy from time to time. I look up Edmund Morris's description (in "The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt) of the winter of 1886-87, which settlers called the Winter of the Blue Snow. At the end of January - the Dakota Indians' "Moon of Cold-Exploding Trees" - there came banging down the worst storm in frontier history: "Children wandering out of doors froze to death within minutes... Women in isolated ranches went...