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...topflight speech writers have emerged in the Johnson stable: Kennedy's former Latin American specialist, Richard Goodwin, 32, and Horace Busby, 40, a University of Texas graduate and longtime Johnson friend. Goodwin cranks out major texts in far less time than Kennedy's Ted Sorensen did, and Johnson insists that he does it with just as much style. Busby is a quiet, discreet intellectual. Warns one experienced Washington hand: "Watch Buz. He's a comer...
...dialogue between Continental and American theologians on major religious issues. Edited by James M. Robinson and John B. Cobb Jr. of the Southern California School of Theology, the book contains essays on hermeneutic by Ernst Fuchs of Marburg and Gerhard Ebeling of Zurich. Their contributions are analyzed by three topflight U.S. thinkers: Amos Wilder of Harvard Divinity School, Robert Funk of Drew, and John Dillen-berger of San Francisco Theological Seminary...
...nothing pastoral about Sutherland's nature: a praying mantis peers from a wicked void of scarlet, a skull dangles in a tapestry of leaves and blue sky, a snake sneaks up to a formal fountain, a torso flails agains: gravity. In his own words, Britain's topflight painter makes "emotional paraphrases of reality." They have never been more horrible or beautiful. Twenty-five recent oils. Through June...
Chemist Robert Havemann is a tortured German intellectual who embraced Communism before 1933 as a way to oppose Nazism. Then a topflight scientist at Berlin's famed Kaiser-Wilhelm (now Max Planck) Institute, he was saved from a Nazi death sentence when the German army argued that he could be more useful with his head on than off. As a result, he did chemical research for the Wehrmacht during World War II while locked up in Brandenburg Prison. After the war Communist Havemann became one of East Germany's star scholars, won the Patriotic Order of Merit from...
...children into state secondary schools geared to their abilities. But it has turned out to be the infamous instru ment that with dread finality determines whether a child aged 10½ to 11½ is to be high or low in Britain's totemistic society, whether he gets topflight pre-university training or a quick go at a lesser school...