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Nobody Works. Farouk, indeed. Not even Charlotte Ford. That reference is an indication of how dated Olsen's girls are. None is endowed with exceptional talent, energy or beauty. What they have in common is a mystical, misplaced conviction that New York City is some kind of catalyst that will bring them undefined personal fulfillment, and that the office is the spot where the miracle will occur. Nobody works in this book; they just go to the office...
...Igor Stravinsky's life was the best documented of any composer's since Beethoven. Why? Largely because of a bespectacled, quizzical-looking musician named Robert Craft, 48. For the last 23 years of Stravinsky's life, Craft served the old master as rehearsal conductor, aide, intellectual catalyst, amanuensis and surrogate son. Moreover, Craft worked with Stravinsky on innumerable magazine articles and six semi-autobiographical books-a series that is supplemented this week by the publication of Craft's Stravinsky: Chronicle of a Friendship 1948/1971 (Knopf...
...that he seems to have a patent on the golden goose. On the average, a new Holiday Inn is opened every three days-or one new room every 36 minutes. Already Wilson has 1,405 inns in 50 states and 20 foreign countries or territories. The inns are a catalyst and a reflection of the age of mass travel; last year alone they served 72 million guests. The Holiday Inn sign, a 43-ft.-tall tower in screaming green, orange and yellow, is almost inescapable on American highways, and it is well on its way to becoming a Pop symbol...
...year's starting second baseman, has taken over at first, and had a fine trip, batting over 300. Senior Vince McGugan, who batted over .300 and stole 11 bases, will be at second. Art Serrano, the starting shortstop, had a very impressive series, and is, according to Park, "a catalyst, and glues the infield together," Captain Mike Thomas at third completes the infield...
...absence of a consistent ideological position in the past has meant that political crises provided the only catalyst for concerted action by the entire organization. This occurred in the past three years with the fight over Black Studies in 1969, the Painters Helpers controversy in 1970, and, most recently, the dispute over Harvard's ownership of Gulf stock...