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...inner circle of back scratchers consists of John Holt (How Children Learn), Jonathan Kozol (Death at an Early Age), Robert Coles (Children of Crisis), Edgar Z. Friedenberg (Coming of Age in America) and Herbert Kohl (36 Children). By no coincidence at all, Holt lauded Kozol's book in the New York Review of Books. Kozol praised Holt's book in LIFE and Friedenberg's book in the Christian Science Monitor. Coles exalted the Kozol and Friedenberg books in reviews for the New York Times. Friedenberg, in turn, gushed over Kozol's writing in the Saturday Review...
Roger D. Brown is managing editor. Jonathan Kozol '58, author of Fume of Poppies, and Richard Tilinghast are the senior editors in Cambridge. Herbert Kohl '59, and Mark Mirsky '61 are the New York senior editors...
During those years beneath the blue lantern, Colette held court much as Proust did in his cork-lined room. Her blue eyes ringed with kohl, her curls carefully brushed over her immense forehead, she received friends sitting up in bed, nibbling garlic and sipping champagne. But she no longer wished to meet the young: "I dread them. It is in the course of nature for declining strength to be scared of up-and-coming new forces. The children who write me letters lay claim to great timidity. But it is for those of my age to feel timidity, almost...
...each dressed in the strange, even bizarre, attire appropriate to the age group. Tall, slender, yet well built and comely, they exhuded an air of vibrant sexuality. Each had obviously spent considerable time and money in bringing her appearance to the pitch of perfection. Eyes were carefully shaded with "kohl" (antimony), skins painted and bodies held taut and provocative within the stresses of the short little kilts and tightly fitted "matari" (little short jackets designed to display the lower half of the bosom...
...week with hopeful advisers-sleek Egyptians, close-mouthed Russians, eager Yemenite exiles home for a new start. Electric light and water went on and off irregularly, and the royal palaces and guesthouses were jammed with sheiks squatting on the floor smoking water pipes, barefoot soldiers with tommy guns and kohl-eyed women who had daringly torn off their veils. Sheiks who spat qat on the carpets were reproved: ''Yemen is now a modern republic...