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...former Tokyo model named Vera, and the father of a baby girl born in December, Ozawa is as hip as can be. At a recent recital by Cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, Ozawa, still sporting his familiar Beatle hairdo, wore a red turtleneck and carried a leather purse on a longish strap. Is Boston ready for this...
...figure of immense vitality as well as subtlety, working at a pace that might have killed a young Hemingway. He wrote The Ambassadors in eight months, and his other two masterpieces, The Wings of the Dove and The Golden Bowl, at the rate of one a year. His longish (and perhaps best) short story, The Beast in the Jungle, seems to have been composed in three days...
...politicians, who after all can be voted out of office, unless you pursue some other process than they pursue. And that other process has to be one of applying reasons rather than playing group politics." If that is not the case, "the point is that over time, a longish period of time, the profession and those who observe the court closely, are persuaded that this bunch of people isn't using its head, that they are motivated much more politically. That opinion by the experts will eventually pervade other strata of opinion -and then the court's authority...
...disclaim any desire to monopolize the CRIMSON's Letters-to-the-Editors column, for just today (Jan. 27th) you kindly carry a longish correspondence from me; but to-today's CRIMSON reports an address by Dr. Chase Peterson, Dean of Admissions in Harvard College, to a group of "Jewish faculty members," and I, along with other Faculty members with whom I have spoken, consider this report extremely disturbing. For my part, the perturbation is two-fold...
...Adventure of Sail 1520-1914 by Captain Donald Macintyre, D.S.O., D.S.C., R.N. 256 pages. Random House. $25. Far more sea-and eyeworthy than the usual splendiferous, spanker-sized boat book, in part because it offers longish selections from the writings of Conrad, James Cook, Lord Nelson, Richard Dana, George Anson and others. More notable, though, is the broad range of paintings and illustrations, and the fact that whoever did the captions miraculously knew a lot about things like rigging-and caption writing...