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...mail), model shipbuilding and music. An accomplished pianist who plays nothing but Bach. Romagna has mastered 672 Bach compositions, sometimes working three hours over a single measure. He practices anywhere, whenever time permits, often going to heroic lengths: he once got seasick practicing aboard Truman's yacht Williamsburg-which was tied up at the dock...
...British Historian Arnold Toynbee, 72, now trains his erudition on a new target. He calls it "Madison Avenue"-by which he means not only U.S. advertising, but also the affluent society and much of U.S. business philosophy. In a remarkable, just published pamphlet-based on a speech delivered at Williamsburg, Va., in June-Professor Toynbee roundly condemns "Madison Avenue" as un-Christian and basically unAmerican...
...outdoor amphitheater at Williamsburg, Va., Thomas Jefferson writes the Declaration of Independence downstage left. In Boone, N.C., Daniel Boone stalks around a stage slightly larger than an elbow of the great Catawba River. And with annual punctuality and a sound like muslin ripping, gunshots in New Mexico signal The Last Escape of Billy the Kid. Mixing fact, fiction, sentiment and gunpowder, the U.S.'s grandiose, often grandiloquent summer pageant plays provide a basic drive-in course in history for more than 5,000,000 people a year, some of whom are surprised to learn that the first De Soto...
THREE NOVELS by Daniel Fuchs: SUMMER IN WILLIAMSBURG (380 pp.); HOMAGE TO BLENHOLT (301 pp.); LOW COMPANY (314 pp.)-Basic Books...
...Clown & Sandwich Boards. Two of the books deal with life in Williamsburg, a colony of poor ultra-Orthodox Jews in a bulge of Brooklyn just opposite Manhattan's Lower East Side. Summer in Williamsburg is a multistranded account of life in a slum street, replete with greed, brutality and love. It focuses on Philip Hayman, an aspiring young writer who is ready for his last year in college and ready, too, for romantic agony. The book is built on the familiar cross-section pattern, and to some degree succumbs to the risks of that method: the parts...