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...glimpses that Ozick gives us of the motivated and intellectually curious Brill though are carefully balanced by equally strong--and painful--images of the young man as an outcast, both as an alienated intellectual and a Jew in a strongly anti-Semitic country. The homosexual advances of a close avant garde friend, combined with the prejudice and hostility he repeatedly encounters, heighten his sense of disillusionment...
...merely as goads? U.S. civil rights legislation mattered very much to Americans; will it have mattered to the rest of the world? Will America have mattered to the rest of the world after a hundred more 60-year periods have vanished, and will we stand in regard to the curious nations of the future as the Etruscans or the Titans...
...cover on a new LP album called Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is a photomontage of a crowd gathered round a grave. And a curious crowd it is: Marilyn Monroe is there, so are Karl Marx, Edgar Allan Poe, Albert Einstein, Lawrence of Arabia, Mae West, Sonny Listen and eight Beatles...
...adults; it is also an interesting psychological study of hysterical obsession, conversion mania, preadolescent sexuality. Twelve-year-old Elizabeth Taylor, a beautiful little girl who has hitherto had minor roles in Lassie Come Home, Jane Eyre, etc., is probably the only person in Hollywood who could bring to this curious role its unusual combination of earthiness and ecstasy...
...history at the University of New Orleans and an editor of Eisenhower's papers, Ambrose is a careful, thorough critic of Ike as citizen, soldier and President. But he is also something of a fan, beguiled by a figure who was "decisive, well disciplined, courageous, dedicated ... intensely curious about people and places, often refreshingly naive, fun-loving-in short a wonderful man to know or be around...