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Celia B. Betsky
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Adrienne Rich: 'Some Kind of Hetaira'
A DRIENNE Rich won the competition for the Yale Series of Younger Poets in 1951 when she was only a
Choose-Your-Own-Island
E VERY MAN is an island. In Rembrandt's Hat, Bernard Malamud presents a choice new collection of short stories, and
More Sinned Against Than Saintly
F RANCO ZEFFIRELLI has fallen victim to the youth movement. In an attempt to tell the story of St. Francis
Ingmar Bergman Stresses Couples, Critic Simon Says
"Hell alone, or hell together" is the question Swedish movie director Ingmar Bergman poses in his films, critic John Simon
Bernard Malamud: A Writer's Experience
I N A LITERARY WORLD that loves to pin labels on its writers, Bernard Malamud has often been called the
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Y OU AINT ANY CRAZIER than the average asshole on the street," decides Randle P. McMurphy, the hero of Ken
Caught in the Parent Trap
B ACK IN THE '50's little blonde poppets land parent-traps for their unsuspecting elders and the sacred foursome of the
The Coming of Age in Tokyo
I N THE COMING OF AGE, Simone de Beauvoir recounts the plot of the ancient Japanese novel Narayama. It tells
Against the Feminist Telescope
T HE LEVEL of literary criticism in the women's movement today is shamefully low," Elizabeth Hardwick told me, the afternoon
Festival May 1 to May 14
W OULD you believe an arts festival at Harvard? How about a celebration of spring entitled the Harvard Square Arts
Judith Shklar: The Metics' Metic
C OMMENTING ON the announcement of Lecturer Judith N. Shklar's appointment to a professorship in Government next summer, one of
The Compleat Oxonian
THE wall-to-wall Persian rugs at the Ritz-Carlton in Boston are faded. There are large worn-out spots down the middle of
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
L OOKING BACK OVER Vittorio De Sica's career is to uncover a list of contradictions; a brave man and great
At the Foot of Llareggub
What with the techniques of modern stage design and the cooperation of art and drama in contemporary theater, many plays
Charlie Brown
P eanuts cocktail napkins lie forgotten in pantry drawers, and Beethoven's face glares up from abandoned Schroeder sweatshirts in musty
