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...track and field medals between them, leaving only scrap iron for the satellites of sport. The victors' list last week read like a Rand McNally index, with 13 nations sharing the 23 gold medals (a division of spoils that might have been even wider had the Africans been competing). Mexico, Cuba and Trinidad fielded their first champions, and Guy Drut brought France its only gold since 1956 when he popped over the last 110-meter hurdle like a champagne cork at a Paris party. Hungary heard its anthem played; and so did Sweden, Finland and Jamaica. New Zealand...
...success of The Great Railway Bazaar (1915), Theroux's engaging travelogue by train, should create a wider audience for this novel than the author has enjoyed in the past. He deserves it. At 35, Theroux is that rarest of beasts, a young writer who is getting better with each book. Paul Gray
...jury, constitutional rights. The issues get beclouded by all these other things. But fairness and justice shouldn't be sacrificed on the altar of speed." Frank Cox, who has been defending one of the San Quentin Six, has had little time or energy to reflect on the wider ramifications of his ordeal. Anxiously anticipating the trial's end, he says wearily, "I feel like I've got a parole date...
These distortions matter because they imply that Jefferson's experience of the visual arts was much wider than it really was. He did not have the automatic overview of a modern museumgoer; nor was he a kind of Yankee Kenneth Clark, mellifluously discoursing among the servants and mockingbirds of Monticello. He believed, correctly, that he was an instrument of history; but he did not imagine himself as a character in a cultural saga. Jef ferson's tough, ambitious self-teaching, in all its patchiness, cannot have been the smooth inheritance of masterpieces that his show suggests...
Another advantage is that it gives wider exposure to one of Shakespeare's supreme achievements. It was exactly 30 years ago that I was bowled over by the Theatre Guild's production of the play--with Henry Daniell's penetrating Leontes, Jessie Royce Landis's imposing Hermione, and Florence Reed's unsurpassable Paulina--and I've been in love with it ever since. But productions remain exceedingly rare, and the work has garnered a great deal of badmouthing from scholars and critics, largely on the grounds that the play is different from others they know and admire...