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...Pieces of Life, a book that alternates short stories with autobiographical essays, Mark Schorer attacks the scramble for a guaranteed future, but with arguments we have heard before. Cautiously, each character in the short stories plans a neat life for himself, one which will allow him to live in as irresponsible and "dignified" a fashion as possible. For Schorer, the order and self-centeredness of wealthy middle class life makes it so impersonal and unrewrading by denying man's basic need for communication...
Unfortunately, Schorer's criticism of cocktail society has few new or daring approaches. He pictures half a dozen hypocritical, middle-aged couples whose blandness is compounded by their own inability to realize how empty their lives are. Neatly dressed wives play the roles of busy do-gooders or plan out their husbands' careers, while their victimized spouses cling to a sense of intellectual superiority as their only source of satisfaction...
DIED. Mark Schorer, 69, respected novelist, literary critic and biographer whose definitive work, Sinclair Lewis: An American Life, became a bestseller in 1961; of a blood infection following bladder surgery; in Oakland, Calif...
...pupils were the best size for an elementary class. Today, 60% of the research is performed by experts outside education. Anthropologists Margaret Mead and Stanley Diamond, for example, are studying the culture patterns of slum schools. New York Composer Vittorio Giannini is developing a new music curriculum. Biographer Mark Schorer is looking for new techniques in teaching literature. Nobel Laureate William Shockley is exploring computer-programmed instruction. Keppel's office has ordered 28 studies alone on a single question: How do first-graders learn to read...
...virility enviable anywhere in the dance world. Ranking ballerinas such as Melissa Hayden, Patricia Wilde, and Maria Tallchief have a sameness of excellence that assures every program of a dazzling performance, but much of the company's real excitement comes from younger dancers-Patricia McBride, Suzanne Farrell, Suki Schorer, Gloria Govrin...