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Gill's account is laced with some acid. John O'Hara is drubbed for his vanity and status seeking. Thurber is recalled as a man "never so happy as when he could cause two old friends to have a falling out." Gill justifiably twits Movie Critic Pauline Kael for long-windedness and openly recounts the depressions, breakdowns, bouts of alcoholism and premature deaths that struck a number of his colleagues. He resurrects no quips that set the fabled Algonquin Round Table on a roar. Most drinking staffers, he reports, preferred dark saloons "suitable for people with a glum...
...campaign for the 1972 Democratic nomination. Poorly organized and poorly prepared, he showed traces of demagoguery in his desperate bid for attention. He ignored a lifetime dedication to civil rights by proposing a constitutional amendment against busing to desegregate public schools. He called McGovern the candidate for "amnesty, acid and abortion," an unfair phrase that stung and stuck. After the campaign, Time Oil Co. and Gulf Oil Corp. were fined for giving him illegal contributions. In addition, the Senate Watergate committee reported that Oilman Leon Hess, chairman of Amerada Hess Corp., secretly channeled $225,000 to Jackson through other people...
Because Horowitz understands how every valve, scope and gadget in the lab works, he doesn't like to take chances. He remembers the way some of the lessons were learned. There was the explosion that splattered him with acid when he was very young, and tried some experiments with batteries. And there was a severe shock in a lab several years ago, when a powerful charge ran in a complete circuit from one arm to the other, passing through his heart. He was almost knocked unconscious, but his first thoughts were, "What went wrong?" He quickly realized that there were...
...SOLDIERS by Robert Stone. An epitaph for the late 1960s etched in acid, this brilliantly bleak novel traces three muddled Americans and a stash of Vietnamese heroin through the counterculture rubble of California...
...soused camel's hair as his paintbrush hit the canvas propped on its tripod probably wouldn't pull a crowd. Unlike musicians or actors, someone who makes strictly visual art tends to go at it alone. It is hard to concoct a performance with audience appeal while etching acid into copper plate, sculpting clay--or daubing paint on canvas. But in the long run, interaction with an audience is just as important to the visual artist as it is to a performer. Unfortunately, many of Harvard's student artists don't experience that kind of interaction...