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...succession of debilitating illnesses. Nearly blind, he suffered from heart disease, kidney malfunction and diabetes. Last week President Nixon eulogized Bunche as a man who "never relented in his persistence to advance the cause of brotherhood and cooperation among men and nations." Now the U.N., which has seldom seemed so ineffective, has a double problem: to find a replacement for the retiring Thant and to fill the void left by the man whom the Secretary-General called "the most effective and best-known of international civil servants...
...actors barely try. Vaccaro is strident, Vincent swishy and Mitchum somnolent as usual. It is often said that Mitchum is a fine actor who has seldom had a role to really challenge him. He has been extraordinary at least twice: as the deranged preacher in Charles Laughton's Night of the Hunter and as the inebriated deputy in Howard Hawks' El Dorado. In his multitude of other roles, he has mostly looked sullen and talked tough; one has the sense, watching him, that he thinks acting is a hell of a way for a man to earn...
What comes especially clear in Wanda June is that Vonnegut is an easy kind of satirist. His writing is full of engineered whimsy, empty of rage. He is so eager to ingratiate himself with his audience that he seldom takes on anything more substantial than tentative heroes, canting psychiatrists, fumbling representatives of Mencken's American booboisie. A couple of heavyweight opponents are indeed invoked throughout Wanda June (the war in Viet Nam, the Christian religion). But Vonnegut dances around them like a kid from the Golden Gloves unwilling to risk even...
...numbers of female teachers as well as students. They have found a common cause in the persistence of discrimination against educated women in scores of jobs, a pattern that Oregon feminists derisively call the "Sally-secretary-sex-symbol syndrome." The most obvious problem is right on campus. Women are seldom promoted to senior faculty rank and are often paid less than men with the same level of responsibility and experience. At Stanford, a women's group has tartly pointed out that the School of Education has no female administrators and only four women among its 42 professors...
...York City's [MORE],*a tabloid monthly that made its debut last June. Editor Richard Pollak, a former press writer for Newsweek, wrote in the first issue that [MORE] would cover the New York press "with the kind of tough-mindedness we think the press should, but seldom does, apply to its coverage of the world." Unlike the other reviews. [MORE] has tried to stake out a national constituency, since New York is the publishing center for the magazine industry...