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...even at home he will not answer a question without clearing his throat and buttoning his coat. When approached by a streetwalker late one night in Manhattan, the Senator introduced himself, shook her hand and proceeded to solicit her vote. He loves his eminence and supports it with a sober single-mindedness matched by few, if any, of his colleagues...
...sober, analytic-minded pro fessionals who today dominate the na tion's philosophy departments, William Ernest Hocking would hardly be con sidered a philosopher at all. A courtly old man who puttered about his 650-acre hilltop farm near New Hamp shire's White Mountains, carrying bird seed in his pockets, Hocking customari ly listed his occupation on income tax forms as "writer-farmer." Unfashionably, he dealt with the grand intellec tual themes that have traditionally pre occupied those who love wisdom: God, the nature of man, the meaning of life. Indeed, when he died last week...
...nicely as Purcell. It's an appetite-whetting thing." The curtain raiser was the world premiere of Fantasy, a short, four-movement suite "in homage to an earlier England" by Composer Virgil Thomson. After a drum roll and a flurry of brass, the music settled down to a sober exercise in what might be called ye olde atonality, a weaving and heaving of dissonant strings with baroque-style embellishments. It was Purcell in modern dress with the stitches showing...
Downhill to Fame. Confessions of an Irish Rebel is one of Behan's worst books, but it is the last of him there is, the last there'll ever be. In 1957, knowing his wild ways, his British publisher assigned a publicity manager to keep him sober long enough to write. Dogging her charge across two continents, locking up the gargle every day till 3 p.m., Mrs. Rae Jeffs got three books out of him before he died. One was Brendan Behan's New York, published in 1964, a love song to that city; one was Brendan...
...attacks range from Ralph Nader's flamboyant denunciation of Rolls Royce door latches to Senator Ribicoff's sober investigation into the recall of 8.7 million automobiles since 1960. Under pressure, the industry has made concessions. Most of the manufacturers have assured a Congressional Committee that they will spare no effort in setting their own safety standards...