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According to the 19-month calendar followed by the worldwide religion known as Bahai, the first day of this week was the 13th of Jalal, in the year 120. It was a red-letter day in the lives of Bahai's 2,000,000 followers. In Haifa, Israel, 504 leaders of the sect gathered to elect by secret ballot nine of their members who will form a Universal House of Justice. After the results are announced to the first world congress of Bahai in London next week, the House will have infallible powers to legislate for the faithful...
Griswold died last night in his 13th year as president of the university...
...politically." When a West German girl was detained at the Soviet border on charges of smuggling caviar, Izvestia brought Evtushenko into it by charging that she had met Evtushenko in Germany and from him had learned all about "fashionable Moscow youth." In Minsk, where Dmitry Shostakovich's new 13th Symphony was performed for the first time outside Moscow, a critic castigated the composer for basing part of his score on Evtushenko's famed poem. Babi Yar, a savage indictment of Soviet anti-Semitism that the literary commissars have already made Evtushenko revise...
Frederick belonged to the Renaissance, and he lived the life of a Renaissance prince. If he had been born in that period, he might have dominated it, but in the 13th century individual ambition was kept in check by a strong church. Novelist Deiss, a rehabilitated public-relations man turned scholar, offers in this impressive biographical novel a solid, scrupulous recreation of Frederick's lifelong struggle to surmount his times...
Author Deiss has done a remarkable job of making 13th century church-state politics comprehensible, and in addition has performed the stupefying task of sorting out Frederick's romances (he fathered legitimate children by several queens and was responsible for numberless bastards; in addition, making no distinction between sexes, he carried on a lifelong affair with Pier della Vigna, the lowborn lawyer who may have invented the sonnet). The novel is not, like its subject, a stupor mundi, but it is a careful, craftsmanlike job, done with intelligence and conscience...