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State Department beat after a stint in Eastern Europe. At the U.N. he covered the U.S. role in the proceedings. William Marmon, born in Richmond, once taught Latin in Greece, later covered the war in Viet Nam. Last week Marmon, along with David Aikman, analyzed China's probable impact on the U.N. (and vice versa). Aikman, an Englishman, has a doctorate in Chinese and Russian history, and is fluent in eight languages...
...kind of culture shock and a feeling of helplessness also afflicts some young middle-class doctors when they do get the opportunity to serve the poor. John Curd, 26, decided against community medicine after a two-month stint at Boston City Hospital. "To work there would just drive me nuts," he says. "The patient population depressed me to the point that I thought the earth was about to blow up and turn into fire. It really bothers me to take care of people who are just totally degenerate about their lives." Says Paul Simpson, 29, a resident at Massachusetts General...
...critic is by definition narcissistic," says Robert Hughes, author of this week's story celebrating the career of Pablo Picasso. "His job is to argue his likes and dislikes in public, then hope that someone takes it all seriously." Hughes has not let such seemly modesty stint his output on three continents. An Australian, he began writing art criticism for a Sydney fortnightly 13 years ago; he was 20 at the time. Four years later, he wrote The Art of Australia. By the time he started contributing to our Art section last year, Hughes had published a second book...
...deeper problem lies with Max himself, who was too much the fastidious dandy, too much the meticulous stylist, to serve as a vehicle for the broad, boisterous traffic of the stage. He considered his twelve-year stint as drama critic for London's Saturday Review a penance in the form of intellectual slumming. He viewed the theater's vulgarity with distaste, and the occasional passion of high drama with skepticism. He had his muses-grace, urbanity, nuance-and he served them exquisitely, but those girls never make the chorus line...
...serious results. But when he ran away from school at age 16, his father sent him down to London in 1920 to be psychoanalyzed. The six-month period of analysis, Greene revealingly admits, was the most peacefully pleasant time of his life, along with a brief, comfortable, post-Oxford stint as a subeditor of the London Times. (When he left the Times in 1929 to try a full-time career in fiction, the editors were deeply distressed, not only because of Greene's quality, but because he was the only subeditor within memory who had ever left the paper...