Word: authorization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gratified and delighted to see on your cover the picture of the most revered author of my youth, Vladimir Nabokov...
...Playboy has had the privilege, over the years, of publishing three works by Vladimir Nabokov, in whole or in part, before they became books. The most recent was Ada and, as TIME noted in quoting the author, he was less than pleased with the accompanying illustrations. You implied, I believe, that he went so far as to compose a critical cable, which he did not send. In fact, we did get a cable from him reading as follows: "Ada fragments beautifully printed but goodness what illustrations! That improbable young mammal and two revolting frogs...
...refused to be drawn into the arguments. "I refuse to bore you with my opinions," Bill Buckley remarked imperiously to one hostile audience. But the continual hostility brought out occasional flashes of anger in other reporters anxious to defend the press. At one dinner Look's George Leonard, author of numerous sympathetic studies of the ghetto, finally exploded at accusations: "Goddammit, that isn't true. The press has told it like it is time and again. Why haven't you read my stories?" He banged his fist on the table. One black tried to soothe him: "There...
...really recognize one another as equals." A tentative resolution suggested that those who felt compelled to turn to violence should first ask themselves whether all possibilities of a peaceful protest had been exhausted. This idea was quickly rejected, and one speaker explained, rather apologetically, that its author was "an out-and-out pacifist...
Much of what follows, unfortunately, should not be imposed on any reasonably alert reader. Though the author, a young Harvard Medical School student, deserves good marks for his science, fiction is his failing. The level of the prose is droningly simplistic-a prose style only partly justified by the fact that the main characters are laconic scientists. The characterization of the scientists and the lush seem to have been retrieved from the memory bank of some tired computer. And the magic of the gadgetry gradually cloys and clutters in the mind...