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...audience (an estimated 48 million), the show began with a male-female duet of Anything You Can Do I Can Do Better. That was followed by the omnipresent Howard Cosell in his own flashy tuxedo-which seemed rather like a smoking jacket on a whooping crane. The experts on hand were Gene Scott and Rosemary Casals; both worked hard to demonstrate their sexist bias. Scott never had a chance in the face of Ms. Casals' steady barrage of anti-Riggs billingsgate...
...Cathedral of St. Pierre, the preacher who stood in John Calvin's pulpit was W.C.C. General Secretary Philip A. Potter, a West Indian Methodist and a black. When the cathedral organ was silent, Papa O'Yeah MacKenzie, a black drummer from Ghana who wore a leopard-skin jacket, played lively percussion solos...
Small Changes almost totally lacks that earlier book's homely virtues. The dust jacket says that Miss Piercy has become active in the feminist movement, and instead of creating believable characters, she has set some stick figures in motion to illustrate her conviction that women would be better off if they organized their lives without men. There are two main characters. Beth is a plain girl from a very simple background who runs away from a brutalizing husband and settles in Boston, where she becomes involved in women's communes and lesbianism. Miriam is a brilliant beauty...
...written for so long." Jolson delivered the message to General Eisenhower, commander in chief of the Allied Forces in North Africa. "Well," said Ike, "when you get back home, give Mrs. Eisenhower back that kiss. As for the other ..." Ike bent over, lifted the flap of his jacket and told Jolson to carry out his wife's instructions...
...dust jacket of this amiable manual for layabouts asks of the prospective reader, "Why should you let Rust Hills tell you how to run your life?" But anyone acquainted with Hills' previous book, How to Do Things Right: The Revelations of a Fussy Man, knows that the author, far from being interested in running the reader's life, refuses even to run his own. Instead he walks it, as if it were an elderly dog. That is his pride, and he has earned it. As he explains, he was the fiction editor of Esquire and then...