Word: authorization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CHANGE, by J. R. Salamanca. Bitterness and tenderness are the alternating currents in this novel of the breakup of a marriage by the author of The Lost Country and Lilith...
AMBASSADOR'S JOURNAL, by John Kenneth Galbraith. Kept during the author's two years as Ambassador to India, this diary is rare both for first-rate prose and succinct, irreverent opinion ("The more underdeveloped the country, the more overdeveloped the women...
THEM, by Joyce Carol Gates. One family's battle to escape the economic and spiritual depression of urban American life, by the author of A Garden of Earthly Delights and Expensive People...
...President's campaign biography, a 116-page document called Where He Stands: The Life and Convictions of Spiro T. Agnew, records that as a boy in Baltimore, he used to help his Greek-born father prepare talks before local groups. "While the Governor's best subject was English," writes Author Ann Pinchot. "this is how he learned to perfect and polish the eloquence and clarity for which he is now known." Alas, it is precisely his prose style that frightens off so many, including some who are sympathetic to his basic message. Columnist William F. Buckley Jr., while concurring...
According to reports from Moscow, the Ryazan branch of the Soviet Writers Union recently yielded to party pressure to expel Solzhenitsyn from the organization. The move was taken to punish the 50-year-old author for "conduct unbecoming a Soviet writer," for "actively using the bourgeois anti-Soviet press for anti-Soviet propaganda," and for failing to combat the use of his name abroad. Since the ouster places a stigma on Solzhenitsyn, it means, in effect, that no Soviet editor would dare accept his works for publication...