Books Briefly
Books Briefly Political bombast The Fleecing of America, by Senator William Proxmire (Houghton Mifflin. 238 pp. $10.95). "The mission of this book is to awaken the guards and sentinels of our...
...A fascinating collection, skillfully edited...
...His book, which is simplistic, unfocused, and often strident, contains little that separates it from other pre-campaign efforts...
...14.95...
...It presents a documented history of direct U.S...
...Iran, before and after Tell the American People: Perspectives on the Iranian Revolution, edited by David H. Albert (Movement for a New Society, 4722 Baltimore Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19143...
...Proxmire is capable of better...
...556 pp...
...256 pp...
...This anthology of essays and photographs contains perhaps the most readable, up-to-date material available on the Iranian revolution...
...Monkeys clenching their teeth, Peruvian brothels, why people fall in love, and the Golden Fleece awards the Wisconsin Democrat has bestowed are the stuff of this forgettable tome...
...He appreciates playwrights Albee and Pinter but is unsympathetic to Beckett and Brecht...
...Sympathetic but not uncritical, it explores the dynamics of the struggle which overthrew a feared and powerful despot, the issues behind the embassy takeover, the status of women in today's Iran, human rights before and after the fall of the Shah, and perspectives on the role of Islam in the revolution...
...Volume Six...
...Harcourt Brace Jovanovich...
...1936-1941, edited by Nigel Nicholson and Joanne Trautmann...
...He is now seventy-six years old, and sixty of those years have been spent in the theater, as an actor, director, or designer...
...An enlightening book...
...A lifetime in the theater An Actor and-His Time: A Memoir, by John Gielgud (Clarkson N. Potter...
...It is based on the first-hand, experience and expertise of scholars, foreign policy researchers, human rights activists, teachers, journalists, and important figures behind the revolution itself...
...19.95...
...Based on his interviews with the BBC, Gielgud's well-illustrated memoir is conversational and vivid...
...Although he is a perfectionist, he is able to laugh at himself and is candid about his mistakes and shortcomings...
...Proxmire has done a valuable job as budget watchdog (but the bloated Pentagon budget will be getting less of his attention, in light of his recent votes and statements...
...He remains fascinated by every detail connected with a performance, from sets and costumes to lighting and tempo ("I'm very keen on pace...
...The mission of this book is to awaken the guards and sentinels of our Federal resources and give to all of you who contribute to them an understanding of the dangerous ease with which they are, dissipated...
...for me it has been a life...
...The letters are gossipy, intense, witty, or occasionally acid-tongued, and they are written against the backdrop of approaching war and her final breakdown...
...The final volume in the lengthy collection of Woolfs letters covers the last five years of her life before her suicide in 1941...
...Laurence Olivier, and the Lunts are spiced with amusing anecdotes...
...4.50 paperback...
...176 pp...
...In the midst of writing her unconventional novels and a biography of Roger Fry, of working with her husband Leonard at the Hogarth Press, of constant shuttling between London and Sussex, Woolf dashed off daily letters to a wide variety of friends and most of all to her sister Vanessa and Vanessa's children, to Vita Sackville-West, and to Ethel Smyth...
...Summing up his long career, he writes, "Acting has rid me of frustrations and satisfied many of my ambitions...
...Throughout she is alive as a sentient human being...
...With that bit of political bombast, gadfly Senator William Proxmire lays out the purpose of his book...
...What happens in 1982—reelection time—may be a better clue to its genesis...
...Superior entertainment...
...Behind the booby prizes and Proxmire's useful lectures on Government waste too often lie such credit-claiming phrases as "I introduced a bill—" and "My bill would ask...
...His reminiscences of Ellen Terry (his great aunt), Sybil Thorn-dike, Edith Evans, Ralph Richardson...
...support of the Shah, his dreaded secret police, the coup that returned him to power in 1953, and the last-ditch efforts to maintain him against massive demonstrations that ended in his overthrow...
...Woolfs last letters The Letters of Virginia Woolf...
...It is more than an occupation or a profession...
Vol. 45 • February 1981 • No. 2
