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...have no control over the election of this person that we are essentially putting on the committee and thus cannot seek reform through him," Victor Freeman, a member of the council said last night, adding that he never thought the committee was a valid organization. "The only reason I voted in favor of CRR last week is because I thought that we should have representation there. But the representative we have may not make reforms," he added...
Mary Shelley's succulent description of Victor Frankenstein's moment of triumph-a moment that Hollywood traditionally illustrated with flashes of lightning and showers of sparks-dramatizes one of the most fundamental metaphors in mythology: the creation of an artificial man. It is an idea that can be traced back to the folklore of man's own creation. According to Greek legend, the first humans were robots formed out of clay by the Titan Prometheus...
NONFICTION: American Dreams, Studs Terkel ∙ Merton: A Biography, Monica Furlong ∙ Naming Names, Victor Navasky ∙ The Girl I Left Behind, Jane O'Reilly ∙ The Letters of Evelyn Waugh, edited by Mark Amory ∙ Walt Whitman, Justin Kaplan ∙ Vladimir Nabokov: Lectures on Literature, edited by Fredson Bowers
...DIED. Victor Sen Yung, 65, San Francisco-born actor who played the "No. 1 Son" of Movie Sleuth Charlie Chan in the 1930s and 1940s and later was noted for his role as the cook Hop Sing on the long-running TV series Bonanza; of suffocation; in North Hollywood, Calif...
NONFICTION: American Dreams: Lost and Found, Studs Terkel Merton: A Biography, Monica Furlong ∙Naming Names, Victor Navasky ∙The Girl I Left Behind, Jane O'Reilly ∙The Letters of Evelyn Waugh, edited by Mark Amory ∙Walt Whitman, Justin Kaplan ∙Vladimir Nabokov: Lectures on Literature, edited by Fredson Bowers