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...this dimming constellation, a bright new light is a little-known publication called the Paris Review-a magazine dedicated to the proposition that authors are more interesting than critics. Founded in Paris five years ago by a group of bumptious young Americans just out of college, the Review offered as its star turn a series of Q. and A. interviews with writers on the art of writing fiction...
...seemed, intended to do just that. Said the admiral at his press conference: "Maybe I am naive. But I feel our Communism is a different Communism. Because of his rich patriotic heritage, no Venezuelan would accept orders from abroad." Such full-gushing benediction of Venezuela's bumptious Communists did indeed show an ideological naiveté. But it showed also a practical shrewdness that any man who hoped to become President of Venezuela should certainly possess...
Boston editors are quick to admit their faults, but they put the blame on the old bugaboo of competition. With a population of more than 2,300,000, metropolitan Boston has six dailies: the staunchly Republican morning Herald (circ. 204,395) and evening Traveler (circ. 186,306) of bustling, bumptious Publisher Robert Choate; the morning Record (circ. 411,971) and evening American (circ. 176,318), both Hearst tabloids; the fusty, fence-straddling morning (circ. 225,162) and evening (149,070) Globes...
...while the buying has been spectacular, earnings have been moderate; 1957 will show a net of $1.5 million on a gross of $45 million, and U.S. oilmen are watching the bumptious newcomer with some skepticism. But confident Harry Jackson, a veteran of 34 years with Tidewater and manager of its Eastern division when Petrofina hired him in 1956, plans to continue expanding...
...Colin's latest book alone that accounted for the waspish notices. Since success plucked at his turtlenecked sweater, Author Wilson has revealed a bumptious streak of humorless selfimportance: "I am the most serious man of our age." Early this year, the most serious man of our age proved that life can be dangerous for an Outsider inadvertently caught indoors (TIME, March 4). His girl friend's father nearly scrambled the egghead with a horsewhip after bursting in on the cozy couple with some gaslit stage dialogue: "Aha, Wilson, the game...