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...weekend last February, 75 companies and Government agencies set up recruiting booths in the Civic Auditorium. Among those represented: Metropolitan Life, Safeway Stores, General Electric, IBM, Bank of America, Trans World Airlines, Levi Strauss. To draw a large crowd, sound trucks blared the news of the fair through neighborhoods heavily populated by Negroes, and clergymen spread the word from pulpits. In all 10,000 people showed up looking for jobs. They met with company recruiters, some of them Negroes, who explained each company's requirements and opportunities...
BRAHMS: LIEBESLIEDER WALTZES (RCA Victor). To a world that has waltzed to the elegant confections of the Strauss family, Brahms's Liebeslieder (with lyrics of Georg Daumer) may seem a bit heavy in a distinctly Teutonic way. But they have their own solid, unpretentious virtues: warmth and vigor that suggest Saturday night at a comfortable old Bierstube rather than a glittering ballroom. The performance by the Robert Shaw Chorale is robust, the piano of Claude Frank and Lilian Kallir downright athletic...
Main resistance at first came from housewives, disillusioned by earlier wash-and-wear claims that fell flat. But as word-of-mouth recommendations spread, sales soared across the country. Says Levi Strauss & Co. President Walter Haas Jr., who is selling products on an allotment basis: "The demand is be yond our capacity." Arrow, Manhattan and Van Heusen shirts have converted the majority of their line. On U.S. campuses, undergraduates who proudly used to wear their chinos wrinkled from the local Laundromat are now coming to class well creased. Says one Midwestern college administrator with satisfaction: "Now they...
Seventy-Seven Dream Songs, a chunk of an unfinished long poem on which he has been working since 1955, was published two years ago by Farrar Strauss. The dream songs, in a word, are unexampled. All the difficult on a first reading; a few, for me, remain nearly opaque after many. Berryman's of-repeated description is helpful: "The poem is about a man named Henry. ('It is entirely about a man named Henry,' he told his Harvard audience last month.) He has a tendency to talk about himself in the third person. His last name is in doubt...
...creator loaded with all the contradictions of the world." But for others, the God issue?including whether or not he is dead?has been put aside as irrelevant. "Personally, I've never been confronted with the question of God," says one such politely indifferent atheist, Dr. Claude Lévi-Strauss, professor of social anthropology at the Collège de France. "I find it's perfectly possible to spend my life knowing that we will never explain the universe." Jesuit Theologian John Courtney Murray points to another variety of unbelief: the atheism of distraction, people who are just "too damn busy...