Word: books
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...driveway of University President David D. Henry's house and read off a list of grievances including an appeal for more black students and a condemnation of the school's "white racist" policies. The students also tried to tie up telephone lines to administrative offices and to book appointments with campus officials in an effort to keep them too busy to perform their jobs. Nonetheless, Illinois was able to hold classes on schedule. - At Roosevelt University in Chicago, black students dramatized the usual list of demands by taking over classes in psychology, political science and literature from regular...
...myths of the American family is the Placid Marriage: nice cou ples don't fight. Psychologists and marriage counselors know that this ste reotype is not really true, and would probably not be healthy if it were. A sprightly new book called The Intimate Enemy (William Morrow; $7.50), by California Psychologist George R. Bach and Peter Wyden, a Ladies' Home Jour nal editor, strikes a blow for the positive virtues of the Pugnacious Marriage...
...Down Comic. Although sex, psychoanalysis and Jewishness form the content of the novel, they are not its subject. The book is about absurdity-the absurdity of a man who knows all about the ethnic, sociological and Freudian hang-ups, yet is still racked by guilt because his ethical impulses conflict with the surge of his animal desires. In Alexander Portnoy's own words, he is "torn by desires that are repugnant to my conscience, and a conscience repugnant to my desires...
...basic danger of doing a book as an act or a routine is that it is only as good as its last bit. Despite Roth's extravagant comic talents and ingenuity, Portnoy's Complaint flags in stretches. The ending is a boisterious but somewhat flatfooted way of getting Portnoy off the stage. On balance, however, Portnoy's Complaint is skillfully paced, eliciting more laughs per page than any novel in recent memory-Catch-22 and The Sot Weed Factor notwithstanding...
...Right now, Portnoy's Complaint is an event," says Philip Roth. "In two years it will be a book." The event was preceded by an enormous advance buildup; excerpts from the book were reprinted in various magazines, and the more outrageous passages were quoted and passed around. Now an assured hit that was sold out in bookshops weeks before its publication date, Portnoy's Complaint has already brought Roth a $250,000 advance on royalties, $350,000 in paperback sales...