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...past 25 years, Mrs. MacDonald Denman, the widow of a San Francisco paper-company executive, has invited Negroes and whites to meet together over dinner or drinks at her home. Mrs. Denman has nothing much more than that in mind, and some of her guests have indicted her assemblies as a superficial attack on the race problem. She accepts the charge. "Of course they are," she says. "But we'll never have anything if we don't begin. There is no big overall effort that can bring the answer-it's a lot of little efforts...
...decent poem are so construed that they take meaning only in relation to the totality, indeed that the progressing of a poem can make unnecessary and even harmful the coagulation of inspiration, is proved, if it needed proving, by Rachel Hadas' exposition of a paradox in "Lucretius Widow Thinks Aloud." Miss Hadas adopts the epistemological methods of the rationalism she explodes and argues her case in spare language simply arranged...
...South's best-accredited white civil rights advocates, called Mrs. Coretta King-who only last January had undergone major surgery-and arranged a flight to Memphis. At the Atlanta terminal, Allen received word that King had died at the hospital, and he broke the news to the widow in the foyer of the ladies' rest room. Mrs. King returned to the family's modest home on the edge of Atlanta's Vine City, a middle-class Negro neighborhood, where the phone was already ringing with calls from across the country. On hand to help answer...
...Rubin, 40, eschewed the gaudy sensationalism favored in the heyday of Dada. Instead, he has let the precise craftsmanship and fertile inventiveness of his chosen artists speak for themselves. The exhibit is sedately mounted in a series of small, serene galleries, with Marcel Duchamp's proto-pop Fresh Widow (a miniature French window with a head cold) respectfully enshrined in a Plexiglas case. Dali's minuscule (as small as 7 in. by 5½ in.) Krafft-Ebing fantasies glow like 15th century Van Eycks beneath Metropolitan Museum-style picture lamps...
...involved in the transplant was on the move. Blaiberg expected soon to go to a seaside cottage south of Cape Town, and was talking about a 1969 visit to Europe. Surgeon Christiaan N. Barnard was in Europe again with brother Marius, and pondering an invitation to Moscow. Dorothy Haupt, widow of the donor of Blaiberg's heart, accepted a trip to Buenos Aires for TV appearances, with $1,000 added...