Word: bookshop
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...principal character is British Intelligence Agent Maurice Castle-a surname that pointedly suggests the guarded and lonely aspects of both the man's profession and character. The settings include the nondescript corridors and offices of "the firm," interiors of London gentlemen's clubs, a richly cluttered bookshop and the drab comforts of Castle's semidetached house in suburban Berkhamsted. It is the town where Greene himself grew up, a schoolteacher's son so bored that he played Russian roulette with his brother's revolver...
Although both impressions and sales figures differ among sellers, many feel that the cults current in the '60s have disappeared. "I would say that there has been a wide broadening of interests over the last five years," Robert Hale, general manager for the Hathaway House Bookshop in Wellesley, says, "Students are no longer locked into a sort of pathetic search for identity and freedom," he says. "They are much freer...
...Gold dispensing amigo. Settle down together and listen to Melody. Say. "I'm gonna fix my face, don't you worry I'll be back." Blue, blue--I believe there's a philosophical inquiry into the nature and the consummated state of bluedness (Check it out at the Grolier bookshop). Anyway, watch spiky disaster-drawing peacock tendrils as the light bulb burns cool-blue bare and listen to "oh daddy, I'm a fool to cry" and ooh daddy you're a fool if the smoke gets in your eyes...
...Science Fiction Shop, 56 Eighth Ave., is a space capsule in the guise of a library; its posters, Little Nemo postcards and Arthur Clarke first editions provide July's most dazzling sci-fireworks. Readers with kinkier inclinations can find New York's only semirespectable X-rated bookshop at 251 W. 42nd St. G&A Books has the kind that used to be banned in Boston. Given today's moral alterations, its clientele is now a band that could be booked there...
...shopkeepers admit to a more direct motivation. "New York is the most important showcase in the world," says Gucci's Cagliarini. Aliquo of Ginori says: "We decided to come because of the prestige, just to say we had a branch on Fifth Avenue." "Angelo Rizzoli just wanted a bookshop on Fifth Avenue," says Robert Supree. "With his dough [an Italian publishing empire with $500 million annual sales], he couldn't care less if he makes money...