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Died. Flannery O'Connor, 39, authoress of the Deep South, an impassioned Roman Catholic from the Georgia backwoods who, in 30 short stories and two critically acclaimed novels (Wise Blood, The Violent Bear It Away}, explored the South's religious curiosities, finding among them such an appalling collection of lunatic prophets and murderous fanatics that one critic called her "a literary white witch," and she herself said, "I write from 9 to 12, and spend the rest of the day recuperating"; of lupus erythematosus (a rare tissue disease); in Milledgeville...
...Violinist David Oistralkh, 55, in a Leningrad hospital after a heart attack; Authoress Dorothy Parker, 70, in her Manhattan home, recuperating from a fractured shoulder; Columnist Walter Winchell, 67, treated and released in Los Angeles after suffering a whiplash neck injury when his car was hit from behind...
Reluctant Rethink. Publication of the petition brought angry cries from Stockholm's "cultural radicals"-the powerful Establishment of secular-minded writers, editors and pedagogues who have been instrumental in, making Sweden a sociological laboratory. "The letter wants to introduce blind authoritarianism!" roared one newspaper, Dagens Nyheter. Authoress Kristina Ahlmark Michanek, 25, a free-love advocate whose latest tome, For Friendship's Sake, is a Swedish bestseller, declared indignantly: "It is a human right to go to bed with someone you like without being insulted by society." After all, she and others pointed out, prostitution is fast dying...
...brand of bitterness is more Angostura than Angst. "What we love about love," she observes, "is the fever, which marriage puts to bed and cures." In this book of aphorisms, jotted down in the time she can spare from her job as managing editor of Glamour magazine, Authoress McLaughlin impales her prey with the cool detachment of a lepidopterist. A neurotic, according to Neurotic's Notebook, "has perfect vision in one eye, but cannot remember which," and goes through life feeling "like a Christmas shopper who keeps dropping his packages, and it's raining." Other glimpses through...
There is much about the Shaws' relationship that will never be known, though English Authoress Janet Dunbar's sympathetic biography tells a great deal about the little-appreciated Mrs. G.B.S. Perhaps to avoid the temptation to take Shaw too seriously, she does not mention what is surely one of the most intriguing epitaphs ever composed by a bereaved husband. Disapproving of "sympathies, regrets, condolences" after Charlotte's death, G.B.S. told, instead, the story of an Indian prince's favorite wife. "When banqueting with him," wrote G.B.S., "she caught fire and was burned to ashes before...