Word: books
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...maintain its sense of narrative and still retain the breadth, texture and philosophical shadings of the original. If that was not challenge enough for Assistant Managing Editor Ronald Kriss, he also had to guard his work on the project - the three-part serialization of Kissinger's book that begins this week - as if it were a state secret. "We did not want stories to appear in advance of TIME'S own first excerpt," explains Editorial Director Ralph Graves, "nor would Kissinger have wanted any unauthorized excerpts to be published...
WILLIAM STYRON looks at you from the back of the book jacket, a little mean perhaps, a little puffy from too much hard living, but secure, very secure, the security of reputation and seven-figure movie rights for Sophie's Choice. It is the Big Book, over 500 pages and therefore serious, Styron's first novel since he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1967 for The Confessions of Nat Turner. Everyone wants to write a Big Book. Ask Norman Mailer...
...might go further and say, as Roger Rosenblatt has suggested, that the book is hollow because Styron doesn't understand evil. Certainly, Styron wanted to write a book about evil; the ambition is palpable in the novel's heft. But I suspect it was an intellectual desire, not a visceral one, that it did not spring from a central concern in Styron's life. What kind of evil, after all, do you find on Martha's Vineyard? There are long sections of secondary history, and extensive quotations from people like Hannah Arendt, passages that seem tacked-on, contrived. The characters...
Club members said yesterday the accident happened after the initiation ceremony. Each year, club initiates run naked from the clubhouse to Lamont Library, check out a book, run to Nini's Corner to buy a candy bar, and head back down Mt. Auburn St. to the clubhouse...
More recently, Paul Blanshard's "Protestants and Others United for the Separation of Church and State" had as its agenda the rollback of the alleged Catholic takeover of the American (nee Protestant) system including the public schools; through lectures and a best-selling book The People's Padre, ex-priest Emmett McLoughlin exposed contemporary Romish abuses to the delight of many...