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When Shawcross spoke this week to a crowd at the Kennedy School, a few in the audience nodded off, bored by the author's lengthy textual analysis of White House Years. If Shawcross displayed his wit at times, there was none of the emotion that the crowd had come to see. Shawcross read whole passages, compared them to others and concluded that Kissinger doesn't always tell the truth. Kissinger, his speech told us, is a target it will take more than one Sideshow to uncover. Shawcross realizes this and he goes about his task ponderously, like a coach looking...
PERHAPS it is unfair ro review a single issue of the journal Daedalus in a collection of book reviews. A group of essays should not be treated on the same textual level as a novel or a work of non-fiction. But Daedalus, as its authors would have you believe, is no ordinary journal. In his preface to the fall 1976 edition, The Editor explains that the work is arranged thematically and integrated logically so as to provide the unity of a book-length treatise. Maybe it is that prefatory buildup which makes the 12 essays contained in this issue...
...Textual Study of the Book of Genesis with Traditional Commentaries...
Adams House Music Society--Lower Common Room--8 p.m.--Pianist Claudia Stevens in a lecturercital on "Textual, Stylistic, and Aesthetic Problems in the performance of Schumann's Impromptus...
Kahn has done a little textual trimming and rearranging to bring the running time down to exactly two hours and a half. And Jane Greenwood has created an attractive bunch of period costumes, although the period is considerably later than Elizabethan...