Word: authorization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ANTONIO IN LOVE, by Giuseppe Berto. This is a simple story of boy meets girl, Italian style, which has been given significance and deep resonance by the author's elaborate prose and by his sense of irony...
WELCOME TO THE MONKEY HOUSE, by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. In this collection of short stories and essays, the author, posing as a mod scientist at the controls of a literary time machine, explores the inner and outer spaces of the man-against-machine perplex...
...ever since I heard of Maurice Ravel's pride in his ability to speak this mysterious tongue. But there now exists a work which offers an explanation of its origin that is as intriguing as the former mystery: Dravidian Origins and the West, by N. Lahovary. The author offers phonetic, lexical and morphological evidence for close links between the Basque language and Dravidian, an Indian language. He concludes that these languages are members of an ancient pre-Hamito-Semitic family whose single origin and single center of diffusion is the Near East...
...Convincer. In the group's hierarchy, Newton is flanked by his minister of information, Eldridge Cleaver, the ex-convict author of Soul on Ice (TIME, April 5), who is the presidential candidate of the multiracial Peace and Freedom Party. The code of the Panthers is a ten-point manifesto, written by Newton in 1966, that calls for complete black control of the businesses, police and courts in Negro areas. Newton also demands freedom for all Negroes in prison and draft exemption for Negroes. Last week Herman B. Ferguson, who is under indictment for a conspiracy to assassinate moderate Negro...
...that matter, Author Duffy fails to establish that her hero has much spark himself ("He still hadn't learned not to make that kind of demand, not to ask for a relationship of dependence rather than one of equals face to face"). Even so, British critics have compared the author to Virginia Woolf, noting that both have the knack of tuning the physical world precisely to the pitch of the characters' emotions...