Search Results

“... A year or two ago my eye was caught by the cover of a magazine on an American news-stand. It was a magazine for the working woman, and its title, in the best traditions of the me-generation, was Self. The cover advertised articles with titles like ‘The Problems of the Kept Man’ and ‘What if He Says No?’ But what attracted my attention was the rather Californian injunction flashed in bold letters across the top: ‘Let’s Be Real!’ Of such stirring raw material is philosophical reflection made ...”

“... with a main interest not in Renaissance but in Romantic literature. An Introduction by Marjorie Levinson is followed by a long essay from the same hand, with the consequence that nearly half the book is written in unacceptable prose and offers some opinions that will always remain pretty mysterious. One typical claim is that Marilyn Butler’s contribution ...”

“... the stolid Jay Leno succeed Johnny Carson at the Tonight Show. He rejoices in his friendships with Paul Newman, Dustin Hoffman, Barry Levinson and Sydney Pollack. He exults over the way CAA was able to bundle its actors, directors and writers together in single production deals. The agency became a studio. CAA’s ascent was ...”

“... Powell’s opinion had been ‘taken as little more than an invitation to fraud’. Sanford Levinson, a progressive law professor, said that he had become increasingly dismayed by ‘the costs to intellectual honesty of the felt need to shoehorn one’s arguments into the language of “diversity”’. In 2014, Students for Fair Admissions, a group ...”

“... bothered by Rustin’s homosexuality, but some of his colleagues were. One of them, Stanley Levinson, suggested that Baldwin and Bayard ‘were better qualified to lead a homosexual movement than a civil rights movement’. This was a period of travelling and lecturing, making speeches, giving interviews and going on television. In May 1963 came the ...”