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...When Saul Bellow wrote his roman a clef, Humboldt's Gift, even knowledgeable readers had trouble recalling the model for Von Humboldt Fleisher. The difficulty would not have occurred if Bellow's chief character had been based on Robert Lowell or John Berry man or Theodore Roethke. Yet, for these celebrated poets, Delmore Schwartz was once the front runner of their generation...
SOLICITING STRONG SCHOLAR to head top university. Boasts 42 Nobel prizewinners, including Faculty Members Saul Bellow and Milton Friedman; achievements range from development of nuclear fission to compiling a 21-volume Assyrian dictionary. The 2,500 undergraduates (2 to 1 male) are studious and competitive, as are the 5,500 graduate students in the professional schools and graduate courses. New president must be adroit manager. Under Incumbent John Wilson, retiring soon at 65, university balanced $255 million budget by trimming faculty slightly and raising tuition; but drive to increase $272 million endowment lags. Salary modest (low $40,000 range...
Like Charlie Citrine, the troubled, intellectual narrator of his novel Humboldt 's Gift, Saul Bellow is fighting over money with a former spouse. Charged with being $11,150 behind in alimony payments to his third wife, Susan Classman Bellow, the Nobel prizewinning author was sentenced to ten days in jail last week by a Chicago circuit court judge. According to his ex-wife's lawyer, Bellow, 62, earned over $450,000 last year. He has posted a $55,000 bond in order to gain time to appeal the decision. "There's no way in hell...
...Service Corps was started in 1964 to give retired executives employment as business advisers in developing countries, where the living is not usually easy. In these prickly circumstances, the outcast executives have thrived. They have served on 5,000 projects in 62 different countries. "Age is no factor," says Saul Eisenberg, volunteer recruiter. One man went to Zaire to advise on marketing procedures when he was 82. So far only one executive has had to come home because of a physical disability. "Older people can take the rigors that anybody can," says Eisenberg...
Center Screen. Canadian film special, with Donald Brittain's Volcano Friday at 7:30 and 9:30; Bethune and Starblanket, Saturday at 7:30; Saul Alinsky Went to War and Never a Backward Step, Saturday at 9:30; Memorandum and Ladies and Gentlemen, Mr. Leonard Cohen, Sunday at 7:30; and King of the Hill and The Players, Sunday at 9:30. All shows at Carpenter Center. (Call 253-7620 for ticket information...