Books Briefly
Books Briefly A Special Love MY OTHER LONELINESS; LETTERS OF THOMAS WOLFE AND ALINE BERNSTEIN edited by Suzanne Stutman University of North Carolina Press. 390 pp. $30 hardcover. $14.95...
...He demonstrates how young people can be challenged and encouraged so that they can reach their potential...
...She maintained her convictions as well as her self-respect: "There was always something in me that insisted that there could be nothing in a life that was not free, that nothing on this earth could make it up to you if you could not say what you wanted to say, write what you wanted to write, vote as you wanted to vote, protest right out loud when you thought your government was wrong...
...14.95 paperback...
...Readers of Thomas Wolfe will remember Esther Jack in his novels The Web and the Rock and You Can't Go Home Again...
...Now eighty-three, Laura Zametkin Hob-son has lived an independent life ahead of her times...
...Many of Bailey's observations are astute and humane...
...he made some lonely explorations of rural and mountainous stretches along the high barbed fences which form the border dividing East from West Germany...
...This account of black lawyers is a chronicle of frustration, challenge, and achievement in the face of great economic and racial obstacles...
...Although the book is a hastily expanded doctoral dissertation, it is nonetheless a mine of information for the legal specialist...
...15.95...
...But after reading his harrowing tales of successful and unsuccessful escapes over the border, sharing a grim visit to the preserved Austrian concentration camp at Matthausen, and contemplating the words of Germans who casually remark that the next war will get rid of the border, the reader is not left with much hope for peaceful unification of Europe, or the world...
...Another McCarthy Biography A CONSPIRACY SO IMMENSE by David M. Oshinsky Macmillan...
...In their early years together Wolfe thrived on her nurture...
...Blacks as Lawyers BLACKS IN THE LAW: PHILADELPHIA AND THE NATION by Geraldine R. Segal University of Pennsylvania Press...
...And I never say it—it always gets away from me...
...some of his physical descriptions are almost palpable...
...Ronald Reagan's attack on public schools has at least focused attention again on education and provides those who deeply care about teaching and learning with an opportunity to participate in the debate...
...When she told Henry Luce of Time that the magazine's promotion was pompous, he hired her to improve it...
...Her Russian parents were fierce believers in free speech, and her father was the first editor of the Jewish Daily Forward...
...Several times he legally breached it, going through East Germany to Berlin (and from West to East Berlin...
...She wrote several books and won success with her best seller on anti-Semitism, Gentlemen's Agreement...
...She was modeled after Aline Bernstein, a costume and scenic designer...
...This is a good introduction to McCarthy and his times...
...Gutsy Woman LAURA Z by Laura Z. Hobson Arbor House...
...The collection is fascinating social history of the 1920s, travelogue, and a heartrending exchange until Bernstein's letters become a painful wail...
...Drawing on rich personal experience, teacher and administrator Joe Nathan outlines specific proposals for innovative and cost-effective programs to revitalize public schools...
...She was gutsy but not hard, and her recollections make for juicy social history...
...Oshinsky's McCarthy is neither a sincere patriot gone awry (Thomas C. Reeves) nor simply a cynical hypocrite (Richard Rovere), but a man driven by ambition, totally lacking in perspective, who was swept up in the anti-communist hysteria of the late 1940s that he later came to symbolize...
...I want to say everything, to roll my life into a ball for you, and to do it all in a page or two...
...410 pp...
...she was a proud Jew and cosmopolitan...
...16.95...
...174 pp...
...17.95...
...Shadow of the Iron Curtain ALONG THE EDGE OF THE FOREST by Anthony Bailey Random House...
...Hobson seems to have total recall of her memories of Clare Boothe Luce, Sinclair Lewis, Dorothy Thompson, Richard Simon, and others...
...with her encouragement, he wrote his first novel, Look Homeward, Angel...
...She did...
...When writer Anthony Bailey decided to explore the "iron curtain" from Lubeck by the Baltic Sea down to Trieste on the Adriatic Sea, he did so with "Germanic" thoroughness...
...This collection of their letters traces their early happiness, quarrels and misunderstandings, temporary reunions, her heartbreak, and final separation...
...597 pp...
...A book on the life and times of Wisconsin Senator Joseph R. McCarthy has almost become an annual event in the publishing industry...
...332 pp...
...She wrote advertising copy, and supported her lover for a year while he tried to write a novel...
...The pervading mood along both sides of the border, says Bailey, is hostility toward the ominous, rigidly enforced barrier imposed by the Soviet Union and its subservient governments (with modifications in the cases of Hungary and Yugoslavia...
...He was unknown and penniless...
...Both were romantic and dramatized themselves...
...Bernstein was disciplined, rational, and sunny...
...Revitalizing Public Schools FREE TO TEACH by Joe Nathan Pilgrim Press...
...When they met in 1925, Bernstein was forty-four, Wolfe twenty-five...
...313 pp...
...Wolfe was undisciplined and verbose and subject to irrational rages...
...Though blacks have entered the mainstream of the legal profession, they are still few in number...
...They are the diet books of the academic and quasi-academic publishing houses...
...Although David Oshinsky does not add substantially to the existing body of information on McCarthy, this biography is far better written and more pointed politically than recent works...
...She almost married Ralph Ingersoll, publisher of Time and later editor of PM...
...According to Geraldine Segal, blacks will have to adapt to the conservative social mores of the profession if they are to succeed as lawyers...
...Wolfe, marveling at her letters, once wrote: "You are brief and complete—just as you are in your beautiful theater work—you know what to leave out, and where to stop...
...He was anti-Semitic and came from a bigoted background...
...And in my effort to say it in a hundred words, I use 5,000...
...His book is must reading for people who are concerned about how to attract and keep talented teachers in our public schools, how to create effective learning opportunities for students, and how to equip young people to become highly skilled participants in a democratic society...
...Segal is critical of the legal profession and notes the lack of interest of the American Bar Association in high black failure rates on bar examinations and the scarcity of talented blacks on law school faculties...
...she was in the prime of her career, secure within a wealthy and devoted family...
...She married and divorced a book publisher, and as a single parent she adopted a son and later, at forty-one, bore a son without notifying the father...
...Their torrent of correspondence bares their contrasting temperaments...
...Then he began to chafe at his dependence on her and at her possessive grip...
...While always insisting on the need to provide opportunities for all children and the need for diversity in teaching methods, Nathan also insists on the need for rigor and high standards...
...I do not...
...The result is a detailed and often fascinating account that reads something like a Michelin guide, with personal and political anecdotes interspersed...
...Bailey drove through cities and villages along the West German and Austrian borders, stopping to talk and drink with officials, casual acquaintances, and old friends...
Vol. 48 • February 1984 • No. 2
