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...children," says Rosenblatt. "But once I saw that they were fairly safe and I would not be able to get to all of them [they were scattered in Syria, Jordan and southern Lebanon], I decided to try to write an impression of the life that had been thrust on them." At one point, Rosenblatt suddenly found himself conducting an unplanned interview with P.L.O. Leader Yasser Arafat and operating as a war correspondent, which had not been his intent. "The real correspondents are in the front lines of journalism," he says admiringly. "They have to be able to demonstrate understanding...
Harper & Row; 527 pages; $18.95 We are put here to become saints," Dorothy Day declared, and with braid-crowned head thrust back and lanky arms flailing, she marched through life as if being a saint were the least of it. This fierce woman, this muscular Christian, founded and edited the intransigently radical Catholic Worker. She suffered prison zestfully for her conscience, as suffragist and pacifist. At 15 she demonstrated with the farm workers of Cesar Chavez and went to jail for one last time. The old lady's picture in the papers made almost too pat a portrait...
Apprehensive that the organization's political thrust might overshadow educational goals, Willie said academics must stress "the linkage between analysis and action. "Saying that education and religion have been the greatest vehicles for the advancement of Blacks in America, he added that "higher education has to hang in there to remind racial minorities of the need not to turn away from...
American Bell's first offering will thrust it into the thick of one of the newest and fiercest slugging matches in U.S. business. Using its experience in transmitting human voices long distances over telephone lines, the company wants to do the same thing with business data between computers. It will sell a service called Advanced Information Systems/Net 1 that will, for example, allow a department store's computer to talk back and forth with another machine in a distant supplier's warehouse. The two machines can even be different kinds of equipment. Said AT&T Chairman Charles...
...does not publicize its stars. If this had not been a Stravinsky festival, it might have become a Suzanne Farrell festival. In a new work-Balanchine's aching five-minute lamentation, Élégy-as well as the great older pieces, she danced with the daring thrust and exquisite musicality that make her perhaps the finest ballerina in the country now. Or it could have been a Heather Watts festival, for this sexy, all-grit dancer seemed to be onstage and in command every night...