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...through the six-hour session, the class adjourns to the dining room for sandwiches and coffee and Piatigorsky's reminiscences from nearly 50 years of concertizing. When a pupil complains about preperformance jitters, he confides that he himself has found no easy remedy: "I try looking in the mirror and saying 'You're the greatest cellist in the world.' " But alas, he adds sadly, "I don't believe me." Or he will tell of the evening he dined with Amateur Fiddler Albert Einstein...
...both. Just for fun, some glasses come armed with roll-up awnings and huge fake eyelashes; others sport spectacular papier-mâché designs glued on to the frames; still others have movable lenses that lift up into a coy wink. In Riviera's new one-way mirror models, the lenses also are decorated; the wearer looks out through a patterned blur, the onlooker is greeted with his own checkered reflection...
...local newsmen were worrying about their jobs, publishers from all over the U.S. were complaining that they had something like two job openings for every available newspaperman. Nor does a merger necessarily mean less employment. Three hundred jobs were lost when the Los Angeles Times folded the Los Angeles Mirror in 1962; since then, the Times has hired 400 more people...
...with the self-absorption of Fellini's 8½ or the glib self-exposure of Arthur Miller's After the Fall. "I wish only to move, surprise, provoke," Jutra has written. "The important thing in life is to have fun. The rest is a hoax." Unhappily, the mirror he holds up to his own life reflects precious little fun. After a while, like any autobiographer who fails to make his subject interesting, he resembles a man absorbed in the act of shaving...
Certainly, as columnists go, old Newsman O'Hara (New York Herald Tribune, New York Daily Mirror, TIME) writes as brightly as most and less fatuously than many. While his Coolidge-era conservatism often placed him not only outside the mainstream of U.S. opinion but outside shouting distance of the river bed as well, it still is a sorry commentary on the press that some editors apparently became disenchanted with him because he supported Goldwater ("It's time the Lawrence Welk people had their say"), criticized the Kennedys ("Instant Adamses"), and loftily dismissed President Johnson ("an uninspiring, uninspired...