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Having defined the post abstractly, the Corporation had managed to out line its conception of the answer to all of Harvard's problems. Their selection of Bok simply gave a flesh and blood example of what they had been talking about for nine months. Both Bok and Dunlop fit exactly the abstract definitions of ideal. Only the tone of that definition was lacking. Harvard had changed, and the post needed a man who represented change. Dunlop...
...Yale law professor Charles A. Reich (all of whose students, the Times exclaims, call him "Charley"), who reports in his book, The Greening of America (currently churning off the Random House presses at a rate of 15,000 a week), that the machinery of Corporate America is destroying flesh and that we should all await with him the inevitable emergence-like grass through the cracks in the side-walk-of a new Consciousness of love, blue jeans and rock music, a Consciousness III. Says the Times: "Youth culture has gotten its very own Norman Vincent Peale." They were not referring...
...physical-fitness instructor tells me I have the legs of an athlete," said that paragon of peacockery, Liberace. Last week Lee was tickling his candlelit keys and twinkling his athletic knees in a wardrobe that even for flesh-fatigued Las Vegas seemed a bit much: red-white-and-blue hot pants. And jeweled shoes with matching socks. And a red-white-and-blue purse. Cost of the outfit: $4,000, which, after all, is a mere pittance compared with the $1,000,000 or so that the world's prettiest pianist has spent on clothes over the past twelve...
Unlike their more evanescent brothers of the flesh, the great figures of fiction are not covered by the laws of libel. Did not Sherlock Holmes admirers helplessly endure odious allegations asserting that Dr. Watson was a woman? Accordingly, anyone fond of Midshipman, Lieutenant, Captain, Commodore or Admiral Horatio Hornblower naturally approaches this new biography with suspicion. Will Britain's second greatest seaman, one wonders, be spuriously presented, for example, as a Hermaphrodite Brig? Or Nelson's long-lost younger brother...
This time, the human flesh proves poor bait; Gimbel and his crew ply beneath three oceans without success. But even the failures are captivating. Divers hitch rides on sea turtles; monumental schools of twitching fish gather and separate at every sudden plane of light. The water is like heavy blue air in which natural law is suspended. Time seems liquid, depth and risk meaningless-until Gimbel surfaces too quickly and doubles over with the bends. Above sea level, the film itself wears gills, fins and horns. It is amateurish and even a bit silly, with crises boyishly re-enacted...