Word: bath
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...aboard a pilgrim ship for Palestine, only to be lugged off to the African slave markets by Moslem pirates. Thenceforward, he ricochets about the Ottoman Empire-from the fall of Algiers to the siege of Vienna to the campaigns in Persia-like some 16th Century Lanny Budd with a bath towel wound around his head. The reader is carried along with Michael's story by a trick of suspense that is original, if nothing else: When, where & how will the hero have to submit to the Mohammedan rite of circumcision...
...rather like a masculine version of Fleur Cowles's late, ill-starred Flair. It looked even more like the fancy and expensive ($3 a copy) trade quarterly, American Fabrics, also published by Reporter Publications. Gentry abounded in detachable inserts (an architect's plans for a Finnish steam bath, a 16-page portfolio of engravings of ducks) and three-color textile ads illustrated by swatches of materials (Shetland woolens, fine corduroys, cotton shirtings, etc.). Gentry extended the sample theme to its articles, in one of which a bag of marjoram was glued to a piece about the herb...
...subscriptions. Flair may well have failed because it aimed at no particular reader. Singer thinks he has drawn a bead on Gentry's: a sort of soth Century Renaissance man-well-educated, well-heeled, with leisure to dabble in the arts, science, sports, philosophy or his own Finnish bath...
Buckley bases his answers on the odd premise that Christianity and capitalism are, if not completely equal, at least inseparable. And like most young absolutists, he empties the baby with the bath. The only way to save Yale, says he, is to have the alumni rise up and quash the "hoax of academic freedom" once & for all. It is all very well for scholars to pursue their researches wherever their researches lead them; teachers have no such right. Says Buckley: "Assuming [that] the overseers of the university have embraced democracy, individualism and religion, the attitudes of the faculty ought...
Nothing Up His Sleeve. In Excelsior Springs, Mo., police arrested Edwin Cotteleer, magician-entertainer at the Elms Hotel, charged him with making off from the hotel with silverware, dishes, two ice buckets, a crystal water pitcher, a card table, table mats, bath rugs, tablecloths, napkins, hand and bath towels, wash cloths, blankets, sheets, pillows and pillow slips...