Word: authority
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Georges Cardinal Grente, 86, one of France's eight cardinals, member of the French Academy, author (The Life and Passion of Jeanne d'Arc), worker in the French Resistance movement in World War II; of influenza; in Le Mans, France, where he served as archbishop...
...decade's most celebrated banger of mystical ashcans has written a fictional account of his childhood, and surprisingly, while the lad he describes is no Penrod, neither is he Little Boy Beat. Jack Duluoz, the author's alter-Kerouac, is exuberantly profane and comfortably delinquent-a kind of city-bound Tom Sawyer who at one point seems ready to go rafting down New England's flood-swollen Merrimack River on a henhouse roof...
Pinball prose, grookish goofiness and all, Kerouac's book is a pleasant boyhood novel. Doctor Sax, which was written in 1952, comes from the apparently bottomless hopper that the author had filled before his bestselling On the Road was published. Perhaps because it contains no such adult concerns as marijuana, Zen Buddhism or women to dull his exuberance, it is Kerouac's best book...
...Marauders, by Charlton Ogburn Jr. The author, a World War II veteran of Merrill's Marauders, recalls the savage Burmese actions with sharp description and incisive reflection...
...addition to the very real naivete with which we as a delegation approached many situations, it is important to remember that on a number of occasions during his visit to the United States the author of the Ogonek article had been rather hard pressed to answer the questions put to him. His experiences with the American press and at Harvard were, on his own admission, especially unpleasant in this regard--a fact which could not be admitted in Ogonek, but which could be avenged through the satirical use of Harvard as a symbol of the rich capitalist class which oppresses...