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...year-old Fuentes, also a prolific playwright, critic, and novelist, has taught and lectured at over a dozen U.S. universities, delivering last year's Spencer Lecture at Harvard. Currently a resident of Princeton, N.J., he is adjunct professor of English and Romance Languages at the University of Pennsylvania...
...course, was Charles Spencer Chaplin, in his time the most beloved figure in film, perhaps in the world, and for all time the greatest master of screen comedy. He was also one of the century's great celebrities and surely one of the most mysterious. Part faun, part satyr, he was avidly stalked, not just by gossips and journalists but by artistic, intellectual and political leaders fascinated by his movies. Yet he permitted only the briefest glimpses of his true self as he flitted through the thicket of myth and misinformation he deliberately created as a hiding place. Even...
...bungled a holdup of a Chinese restaurant. He was shot by the owner and, once captured, told police a tale with a twist straight out of Charles Dickens. He said the leader of the gang of some 20 young men, ranging in age from 15 to 25, was Spencer Sawyer, 31, a maintenance supervisor. An imposing figure at 6 ft., 230 Ibs., with a full beard and shaven head, Sawyer had formed the nucleus of his gang while coaching a Little League team about seven years ago. The gang members said he plied them, when they were only...
Since its publication last September, The One Minute Manager (Morrow; 111 pages; $15) has sold more than half a million copies. This week it is No. 3 on the New York Times bestseller list. The thin volume by Management Consultant Kenneth Blanchard and Psychologist Spencer Johnson sets forth the three secrets that they claim can transform executives into models of efficiency and their employees into grinning self-starters. The formulas for success: One Minute Goals, One Minute Praisings and One Minute Reprimands...
NONFICTION: Eleni, Nicholas Gage The Forties, Edmund Wilson ∙The Last Lion, Winston Spencer Churchill, William Manchester Lectures on Don Quixote, Vladimir Nabokov ∙A Private View, Irene Mayer Selznick ∙White Mischief, James...