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...Your rundown of freelance writers [Sept. 15] is a put-down leaving a blunted impression. Many of us, for example, reject a good deal more than 20% of the articles we are asked to write. Many of us, also, though in our late 30s, still find ourselves constantly rejecting offers of "other ways to make money"-such as editing. But the main point is, I think, that most of us still like to approach writing -whether for magazines or books or newspaper supplements-more for the sake of expression than income, more in search of truth than rewards...
Cubes & Guitars. The show, in sum, is a mirror of modern French sculp ture. The son of a poor Parisian worker, Laurens began his career, after stud ies with a decorative sculptor, in a rundown house on a dead end Montmartre street. The year was 1911. Cub ism was in full flower, and Georges Braque lived only a few doors away...
With Jeff Hall, a good bunter, at the plate, Harvard tried to widen its 3-1 lead with a suicide squeeze bunt -- a play that won the Penn game last Saturday. But this time Hall missed, and the suicide was on. Hootstein was tagged out in a rundown, and the alert Lions caught Lord off first, to clear the bases with an unusual double play...
...After a rundown of sentiment in each department indicated that most teaching fellows would be unwilling to join a "union"" or strike to achieve their demands, the committee voted to recommend the term "federation" to the Feb. 15 general membership meeting...
HOUSES OF GOD by Jeannette Mirsky. 235 pages. Viking. $8.50. Just the thing for the pantheist on the gift list. An ecumenical rundown of all the world's most important places of worship, from the equinoctial siting at Stonehenge to the bland Meditation Room at the United Nations...