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...curious world of American publishing is that this country is in the middle of a modest literary boom. It is not a renaissance; the ages preceding this one have not been shamefully dark. Nor is there now any blinding coruscation of genius. But there is a gentle swell of hope and good prose...
...building for IBM in Seattle, faced with slender, concrete-clad steel ribs that support the structure and give the building a delicate, almost at tenuated upward sweep. The arched colonnade at the bottom daringly omits corner columns. The Outsider. A few years ago. when his income had begun to swell, Yamasaki started looking for a larger house for his family, in either Birmingham or Grosse Pointe. But he soon found that even though he is one of Detroit's most famous citizens, he is also a Nisei and therefore still partly an outsider. His real estate broker told...
President Kennedy's success in the Cuban crisis has had an extremely odd aftermath. One of its less happy results has been to swell Mr. Kennedy's head to the point where he feels that he may treat his allies exactly as he pleases, and have them take it. Likely enough the outcome of the Nassau meeting with Prime Minister Macmillan would have been the same with or without Cuba, but the consummate tactlessness of the U.S. offer of Polaris almost certainly would not. On the other side of the same coin, however, the President's new confidence--even bonhomie...
...Paul Anka to inspire them, Zanuck's troops have a splendid time on D-day outfoxing those funny old Germans. Day is three hours long, and while it is never boring, it is basically an episodic documentary that sometimes has the bad taste to say: war is swell...
Gift of Tongues. Many Pentecostals attend church every night for a two-hour service that would make the average Southern Baptist feel uncomfortably High Church. Loud Bible readings and spontaneous testimonials are part of every service, punctuated by shouts of "Aleluya" and "Gracias a Dios." The hymns swell over a rhythmic clapping, generally accompanied by a guitar, drums, tambourines, a bass fiddle, piano or small combo...