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...conference in 1945, is the son of the late Carl J. Hambro, who served as the last president of the League of Nations. As a student, young Edvard did research under a fellowship at League headquarters in Geneva. A former smoker, Hambro now inveighs against tobacco with almost evangelistic fervor, and will not hesitate to ask guests not to smoke in his presence...
Jammed with 190,000 students, the 18 campuses of New York City's municipal university last week looked like 18 Grand Central stations during the height of rush hour. Classes met in auditoriums and converted storefronts, a synagogue and a onetime indoor hockey rink. With surprising fervor, the City University of New York (CUNY) had set out to help break the poverty cycle of young people-both white and black -who graduate with serious educational deficiencies from the city's high schools each year. Under its new "open admissions" policy, CUNY was taking such students despite their academic...
Remember back in 1958 when Danny and the Juniors sang with the fervor of true disciples, "Rock and roll will always be/It'll go down in history?" Well, a new book called The Sound of the City (Outerbridge & Dienstfrey, $6.95 hardbound, $2.95 paperbound) is the history they were singing about. There have been other chronicles about the rise of rock, but they have been either too scattershot or too personal. The Sound of the City manages to be both enthusiastic and exact. It is the best history of rock yet published...
...which ultimately short-circuited his attempts to destroy himself and those around him in great purges of oblivion. BZ is equally disgusted-and so, it would seem, is Joan Didion, who writes of her allegiance with Marion in an essay entitled "On Morality"-but BZ lacks Marion's moral fervor. BZ is simply tired. The fervor has long since burnt away. BZ confronts Maria with the possibility of suicide-then proceeds to show her that in a world where all life is dead, not even suicide is an alternative...
...which ultimately short-circuited his attempts to destroy himself and those around him in great purges of oblivion. BZ is equally disgusted-and so, it would seem, is Joan Didion, who writes of her allegiance with Marion in an essay entitled "On Morality"-but BZ lacks Marion's moral fervor. BZ is simply tired. The fervor has long since burnt away. BZ confronts Maria with the possibility of suicide-then proceeds to show her that in a world where all life is dead, not even suicide is an alternative...