11 picks · 1959–1990
Nat Hentoff’s 1990 Profile of Justice William Brennan. “On certain fundamental questions of individual liberty Brennan has so profoundly redefined the framework in which the issues are discussed that he may well be the most influential member of the Court in this century.”
PROFILE of Cardinal John J. O'Connor. Not long after he became Archbishop of N.Y. in Mar., 1984, he set off a controversy. At issue was whether he had …
PROFILE of Cardinal John J. O'Connor. After 8 months as Bishop of Scranton he became Archbishop of New York and in April, 1985 was named a Cardinal by …
PROFILE of Kenneth Clark, black psychologist and educator. He was mentioned in a footnote in the 1954 Supreme Court decision Brown v. Board of Education of…
PROFILE of Mayor Lindsay. Last fall there was a strike by the United Federation of Teachers, who charged that 83 teachers were in danger of being removed …
PROFILE of Mayor Lindsay. Among those he considers especially loyal to him is Mitch Ginsberg. Ginsberg headed the Dept. of Welfare from Feb., 1966 to Dec.,…
Nat Hentoff’s 1966 Profile of Maurice Sendak, the author of “Where the Wild Things Are.”
PROFILE of Dr. Marie Nyswander, a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who, under a program of research instituted by the Rockefeller Institute, isconducting …
PROFILE of Dr. Marie Nyswander, a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who is conducting an experiment in "store-front psychiatry," the treatment of drug addict …
Nat Hentoff’s portrait of the artist trying to move past “finger-pointing” songs, and finding a new voice in the process.
PROFILE of Mulligan, a jazz composer, arranger & saxophonist. Tells about his important contribution to the reform of "modern jazz." Unlike many modern …