Word: author
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PETERSBURG. Fla.- Jack Kerouac, author and pioneer of the beat generation, is dead...
...leading the University in total enrollment for the second year is Humanities 7. Taught by William Alfred, professor of English and author of the Broadway play Hogan's Goat, the course contrasts British and American plays of the last 20 years with those of Sartre, Beckett, lonesco and some early Greek playwrights. Hum 7 dropped from a high of 945 students last year to 736 for this term, though it is still easily in the lead...
...contemporaries, from whom the future was concealed." With such handling, events achieve a fresh plausibility; Mary's behavior with Darnley and Bothwell, for example, becomes humanly understandable. Historic perspectives are foreshortened-a most notable defect in Miss Fraser's acerbic portrait of Queen Elizabeth. Nonetheless, the author marshals her evidence generously enough to allow for differing interpretations and briskly clears away the "cobwebs of fantasy" that have attached themselves to Mary's character over the centuries. Her Mary emerges neither as a Jezebel nor as a saint, but as a high-spirited woman who was brave, rather...
...real. Then nobody likes him or his dirty work, and fewer still want to tell about it. Partly as a result, James Bond is a household word while practically nobody knows the names and numbers of the actual players in the cold underworld of international espionage. A journalist-author named Andrew Tully airs this situation in a provocative and detailed new book that claims to reveal a dark cloakful of hitherto secret tales of derring...
...much effort necessary? Tully is not sure that it is. Even if it is accepted that the U.S. should secret-police the world, there is obviously much wasteful duplication among the agencies. Tully's popularly aimed book is hardly conclusive. The author raises questions far better than he explores them. Congress itself has shirked the job of keeping any real tabs on the intelligence funds it votes. It is possible that the only complete accounting of the elaborate U.S. espionage establishment lies in some busy and bulging file in Moscow...