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...them is Henry Adams, the great-grandnephew of the author of Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres. Instead of writing about stained glass, the most recent Adams to graduate from Harvard intends to go into the craft itself, making skylights and glass sections for geodesic domes.* Ross Coppelman, a Harvard '70 English major, is making a variable but decent enough living...
Married. Mick Jagger, 27, lead singer of the Rolling Stones; and Bianca Perez Morena de Macias, 26, daughter of a Nicaraguan diplomat; both for the first time; in Saint-Tropez, France...
...guess I was turned off because of what they did with the King book. I'm not sure that the guy that wrote the piece had ever read the book. I suspect that he hadn't. When The Man Who Cried I Am came out I was a saint. I could do no wrong. Now this book-not only do I work for the CIA, but I'm probably just coming back from an all-expense, CIA-paid tour of Europe and sitting down at a gold-plated type-writer. I would hope that the readers would find that...
...Catholic of the subtitle is Dr. Thomas More, a collateral descendant of the saint. He is also alcoholic, and, at 45, his health and equilibrium have become very shaky. "At the time that I developed liberal anxiety," he mourns, "I also contracted conservative rage and large-bowel complaints." Much of his time is spent mooning over three dizzy young girls whom he loves equally in a rather abstracted way. Deeply skeptical of human solutions, he nevertheless deludes himself that he can heal the modern soul with an invention which he calls the lapsometer. Like a latter-day Descartes focusing...
...Saint Charles, a ship since dubbed "the Jewish Mayflower," arrived in what is now New York Harbor with 23 Jews aboard. They were fleeing the Spanish Inquisition. It is their descendants-including the Nathan, Gratz, Seixas, Franks and Lopez families-that Birmingham examines. They consider themselves the nobility of American Jewry because their heritage can be traced back to medieval Spain and Portugal, where their ancestors lived as grandees-Spanish or Portuguese noblemen of the first rank...