Word: caxton
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...John Steinbeck read the Arthurian legend in the Caxton edition of Sir Thomas Malory's Morte d'Arthur. Grappling with the language, he met the tale on its own terms, with few concessions to propriety or adult ideas of logic. His resulting love for the legend prompted him to return to it again and again, digging up the sources and scholars of Malory. Finally, in 1956, he approached Malory with greater daring...
...with a Xerox machine and a borrowed original. After years of controversy, the Senate last week passed a revision of the copyright law that would prohibit photocopying of more than a small excerpt from copyrighted material. The bill is now bogged down in the House. Says Marshall McLuhan: "Whereas Caxton and Gutenberg enabled all men to become readers, Xerox has enabled all men to become publishers...
Howard Miller, a lawyer opposing Rusher, challenged the police activities on a moral and legal basis, presenting testimony from Ralph Stein, formerly at the U.S. Army Intelligence "New Left Desk" and Caxton Foster, a professor of computer technology at the University of Massachusetts...
...bridegroom wore hair and maroon velvet, the bride wore flowers and white satin when Michael Wilding, 17, son of Actress Elizabeth Taylor and her second husband, Actor Michael Wilding, married Beth Clutter, 19. Outside London's Caxton Hall Registry, a crowd of 500 gathered to goggle at the groom's mum (in white wool pants and a rink-sized diamond) and her husband, Richard Burton (in business suit and a new slim, "off-the-sauce" look). No wedding reception, no honeymoon. "Too old-fashioned," explained a p.r. man. "These are a couple of mod kids...
...Author Wolff, Newsweek's book editor, invokes Freeman and his long-suffering family with subtlety. Their relations with one another, it turns out, are also bad debts. His wife Ann, sexually and emotionally little more than an object of Freeman's consumption, has left him. His son Caxton, a conniving p.r. flack for a top political candidate, helps support his father-primarily because of the embarrassment the old man could cause by showing up in Washington. Freeman's cousin Gerrish, a money-mad but bumbling lawyer, acts as an unwilling buffer between the members of this emotionally...