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KILLINGS by Calvin Trillin Ticknor & Fields; 231 pages...
...newly published book of tribute may ensure Lowenstein his deserved place in history. Lowenstein Acts of Courage and Belief is his story told in his own words and in those of such diverse writers as William E. Buckley Jr. Calvin Trillin, Jack Anderson, and Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54. A collection of articles and speeches by and about "the original activist." Acts of Courage and Belief is a moving testimony to a man who became for a time an American political legend...
...writer Calvin Trillin has described a popular affliction called "Hometown Food Nostalgia" which results in millions of pounds of sausage, cheese, candy and other goodies crisscrossing the country every year, sent to desperate expatriates. The theory was developed by a friend of Trillin's as he stood in the post office line, holding a package of Kansas City's famed Wolferman's English muffins that he was about to send to his son in Virginia...
...built a strong body to do work. Now women are building their bodies just to look good. Is that enough? Does beauty stop at the skin line? For this kind of woman, it does. She will be sitting alone, in an empty room, with her perfect body." Calvin Trillin, The New Yorker journalist and humorist, wonders whether this new ideal woman is only a media spin-off from the popularity of Jane Fonda and her bestselling Workout Book (see box page 75). "For the public good," Trillin says, "the more people who can lift...
NONFICTION: Dorothy Day, William D. Miller ∙ The Killing of Bonnie Garland, Willard Gaylin ∙Poets in Their Youth, Eileen Simpson ∙ Richard and Cosima Wagner: Biography of a Marriage, Geoffrey Skelton ∙Thomas Hardy, Michael Millgate ∙Uncivil Liberties, Calvin Trillin...