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Opening Rusty Locks. "The music and the body movements seem to channel their energy," says third-grade teacher Rochelle Sheby. Adds P.S. 77's assistant principal, Mrs. Mildred Stiller: "These kids are not afraid of learning to read, because they don't know they're doing it." The technique also breaks down inhibitions. "It's like a rusty lock," explains Levine. "Put a key into it, and it won't work. Keep trying, and it will loosen up and begin to function." He is convinced that music is a key to learning to read. Since...
...that every little phryne is a saint with eyeshadow. He simply means to say, and he says it eloquently, that the pursuit of pleasure may also be a search for the self. The theme is illustrated with utmost art in the portrait of the heroine. Not since Stiller's camera turned to stare at Garbo has a man made such searing love with a lens. Godard's camera never lets the girl out of its sight. It circles her endlessly, kisses her hands, caresses her shoulders, brushes her lips and her hair, turns all at once to feed...
...yard breastroke, the Crimson's two top swimmers, Doug McCartney and Jim Stanley, finished one-two, but barely an arm's length ahead of Cornell's Dave Stiller. Had the varsity lost this race, another meet would have hinged on the final freestyle relay...
Ingenious Blend. But can Sam be proved to be Stiller? That is the question-and it is one that has always intrigued the theologians and philosophers who have delved into the problem of personal identity. "Good Swiss commonsense" knows that "Sam White" is the fiction of a desperate man who is determined to escape not only from his past but from the self by which he is known to others. But the Stiller beneath the Sam is equally sure that there is much more in him than others can perceive: by running away to the New World and becoming "another...
...nice sense of drama (he is a playwright as well as a novelist). The only difficulty readers will find in his book is that it starts off with the bang of a whodunit and then tails off into the world of Germanic near mysticism. I'm Not Stiller is already a European bestseller and has been hailed as a masterpiece; perhaps it is more accurate to describe it as the first novel since World War II that has tried to exploit the rich, mixed inheritance handed down by Kafka, Koestler and Mann...