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...rest of the book meticulously follows Cowan's years of leftist activism and roving journalism, which were punctuated rather than shaped by his new insights into the past. On an impulsive trip to Israel for kibbutz work, he learned Hebrew, took the name Saul Cohen for convenience's sake, and gradually shed his Choate-instilled self-image as a wimpish Jew-boy. Researching a long Voice feature called "Jews Without Money, Revisited," he spent months in a Lower East Side housing project in New York City, satisfying a growing obsession under the guise of reporting; the same exploration brought...
...issue is simply that if the U. N. is going to hypocritically defy the good instincts upon which it was founded, it should at least keep things quietly confined to the plushly upholstered assembly rooms upstairs, the ones that you have to be over 14 to enter. For the sake of the noble ideals of international cooperation and world peace on which they were founded, let them at least spare the fifth graders and keep the political one-sidedness out of the visitors' lobby...
...proscribe an unauthorized but accurate biography. Thanks to the First Amendment, docudrama writers are probably entitled to invent some plausible dialogue and embellish events a bit. But at some point that free speech protection runs out. Says University of Michigan Law Professor Vincent Blasi: "When you dramatize for the sake of making her life more interesting than it is, then the courts are more likely to say you've gone...
...MORE also offers Rooney at his best. He presents prosaic subjects not only for their own sake--"where did [Manhattan's] Fourth Avenue go?"--but also because they serve as a foundation on which he constructs amusing and developed discussions. He hates weathermen, as he describes their typical broadcast. "There's ice on the roads today and many of the roads are slippery, listeners, so please drive carefully,'" Rooney wonders. "Does he think we're idiots? Does he think we don't know ice is slippery'" Horoscopes receive a similar treatment. "Cancer: This is a good time for those...
...upcoming change which Murphy feels may infuse the magazine with more day-to-day relevance is a renewed emphasis on non-fiction. Although it began as a forum for student opinion and debate, the Advocate has over the years moved increasingly towards a "pure art for art's sake" approach. In "First Flowering. The Best of the Harvard Advocate," editor Edward Smoley describes the gradual withdrawal from issues of university-wide relevance that post-World War II board members effected. "The Advocate editors were becoming a literary clique, the magazine their house organ. They showed little interest in student affairs...