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What a delicious irony Gertrude Himmelfarb suggests: behind every hippie crying "Do your own thing" and "Let it all hang out" stands an uptight Victorian with tics and twitches. Her Exhibit A is that pre-eminent Victorian John Stuart Mill, child protégé and author of On Liberty (1854). Himmelfarb, professor of history at the City University of New York and author of Victorian Minds, constructs a careful case about Mill as the sponsor of what she takes to be the fallacious modern argument that since liberty is good, the more liberty the better...
Dynamic and eloquent, Peres seems well suited for the job. In the last Cabinet of Premier Golda Meir, he served as Transport Minister. Before that, Peres had been director general in the Defense Ministry, as a protégé of Premier David Ben-Gurion, then became Deputy Minister of Defense to Dayan...
...Beta Kappa graduate of the University of California and Harvard Business School, Hawley sold his four ice-cream shops in 1952 and went to work for a Portland department store. He joined Broadway-Hale six years later as a buyer, was adopted as protégé by Board Chairman Edward Carter, and was named president...
Malick, who is 30, is a protégé of Arthur Penn, whom he thanks in the end credits and to whose Bonnie and Clyde he is indebted. Badlands, however, is very different in its sensibility - chilly, savage and rueful. It might better be regarded less as a companion piece to Bonnie and Clyde than as an elaboration and reply. It is not loose and high-spirited. All its comedy has a frosty irony, and its violence, instead of being brutally balletic, is executed with a dry, remorseless drive...
...like Michael. They compete for his attention." Many movie insiders agree that Bluhdorn, who insists to the press that he takes no part in Paramount decisions even though his Gulf & Western company owns the studio, plays his corporate sons off against each other. Evans is his particular prot...