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...Other Social Leaders of 'Pressure Disparity' Harvard University, Cambridge. "The sender stressed that his letter was "personal"; it contained what the News Office considers one of the stars of the collection--a thirty--five page treatise on the world with pages Scotch taped together to form a scroll...
Afterward the orchestra musicians presented him with an ornate scroll with all their signatures as a gesture of respect and affection. "Heavenly thanks for the good musical collaboration," it reads. "So nice," said the kid from Cincinnati who had grown up to sound the grand Amen. "That's marvelous. Fantastic. Wonderful...
...after winning the literary Triple Crown: the Pulitzer Prize ("Critics have called the book a fulfillment of Updike's fabulous promise"), an American Book Award ("Let us celebrate the prestidigitator who tells today with passion and warning, and tricks it into language's jubilee") and a commendatory scroll from the National Book Critics Circle ("The novel vibrates with success"). To commemorate Updike's first half-century, his longtime publisher, Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., has released a handsome new edition of the author's first book, a collection of poems called The Carpentered Hen (1958). Many writers...
...more than a century, the name Wurlitzer has been a household synonym for high-quality musical instruments, from grand pianos to the imposing wood and gold-leaf scroll organs that boomed across sports stadiums and carnival midways. Although the 8,000-pipe "Mighty Wurlitzer" at Manhattan's Radio City Music Hall is still in operation, the company that built it is struggling for its life, victimized by foreign competition, high interest rates and a weak economy. Together, these pressures have flattened sales of pianos and organs alike...
China: Alive in the Bitter Sea and From the Center of the Earth invite comparison to Chinese art works. In that case, Butterfield's book is an enormous scroll, a teeming, informative landscape of scurrying figures. Bernstein paints with a more expressive, delicate brush. His art is philosophical and impressionistic, elegant and in some ways more moving. Where Butterfield deals mostly with urban China, Bernstein attempts to plumb the interior hinterland, the very heart of China. Together, these complementary volumes reveal the China of dust and sweat-the China of experience rather than imagination. They create a portrait...