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...story, Ivy Day in the Committee Room (1905) published 14 years after Parnell's death. Joyce Marlow's antidote to Parnellism-the stuff of which greening statues in the park and old candy-box covers are made-is sobriety. Mrs. Marlow is an exactress who did not abandon drama when she left the stage. Yet her biography of Katharine (and inevitably, Parnell) weighs evidence with the scruples of a professional historian and character with the caution of a professional skeptic. The historian's fussing over documentation may be too detailed for any but devotees of failed crusades...
...fear cruising on an ocean liner. After Airport and its followup, I cringe at the thought of flight. Towering Inferno gives me indigestion before I arrive for dinner at my favorite restaurant on the 62nd floor of the U.S. Steel Building. Jaws [June 23] now forces me to abandon my vacation spot on Cape Hatteras in favor of the safety of the Allegheny River. Ah, the brilliance of Hollywood! In one short year it has transformed Americans into cowering paranoids whose only security is found in the tenth row of a darkened cinema...
...Government and people should not abandon me because of my color and my race," implored the strained voice on a tape recording delivered to the American embassy in Beirut late last week. U.S. officials in the Lebanese capital quickly confirmed that the voice was that of a black U.S. Army officer, Colonel Ernest R. Morgan, 43, who had been kidnaped by terrorists on June...
...fellow at Harvard's Institute for International Development. John Karefa-Smart left Sierra Leone to become a lecturer at the Harvard Medical School. Pavel Litvmov has been polishing his English at Manhattanville College in Purchase. N.Y., so he can resume the study of physics that he had to abandon in the Soviet Union. These men have one trait in common--all were political prisoners in their native countries, and all were aided by an organization known as Amnesty International...
Last week the consortium met in Chicago and voted unanimously to abandon the entire Riyadh project unless "an understanding can be reached" with the Saudis, preventing any ethnic, religious, racial or sex discrimination. Says David Johnson, dean of international studies at Wisconsin: "We are not really dependent on an infusion of Arabian funds. Even if we were, this organization is not going to prostitute itself for oil money...