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...penchant for isolating national and temperamental types. Glober is a sixtyish, playboy film producer, a self-made man up from Jewish-immigrant slums, who takes a snippet of pubic hair from every woman he seduces. Gwinnett is a withdrawn, thirtyish academic, a descendant of Button Gwinnett, the first signer of the Constitution, who has a whiff of necrophilia in his makeup. Both are drawn to Pamela partly because of her infamous liaison (in Books Do Furnish a Room) with the late writer X. (for nothing, not for Xavier) Trapnel, the possible source of a film for Glober, a biography...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Jenkins Ear Again | 10/22/1973 | See Source »

...study group last year for a while," Michael S. Bernick '74, an organizer of the meeting, told the group, "although it was more Harrington than Marx." Michael Harrington, former chairman of the Socialist party, was another signer of the Organizing Committee statement...

Author: By Seth M. Kupferberg, | Title: 75 Hear Walzer at a Meeting Of Democratic Socialist Club | 10/3/1973 | See Source »

...Septimius Severus, the Roman Emperor (A.D. 146-211) who was born in Libya. A visitor would not know who it was if he could not read Arabic, since the plaque in Latin letters has been removed. Today the few Italians remaining in Tripoli jokingly refer to Severus as "Signer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LIBYA: The People's Revolution | 6/4/1973 | See Source »

...Cloud and other Oglala Sioux eventually signed the treaty, primarily because they had no real choice. The cavalry had already assumed control of the Hills, although one non-signer-Sitting Bull-managed to inflict a horrible defeat on General George A. Custer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Black Hills: White Man Made Crazy by Yellow Metal | 4/11/1973 | See Source »

Daniel Steiner '54, general counsel to the University, himself a signer of the petition, has arranged for two Harvard students and two MIT students to directly confront Keldysh over the Soviet exit policy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard, MIT Physicists to Confront Soviets on Jewish Emigration Policy | 10/27/1972 | See Source »

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