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...company also got an unexpected puff from Winston's slogan?"Winstons taste good like a cigarette should"?which had been dreamed up in an advertising session with Gray. Questioning the use of "like," Critic Clifton Fadiman assailed the "quiet assassination of the conjunction 'as,' " and Editor Bruce Bliven cried: "I find that I sit in front of my television set shouting at the tiny figures on it: 'No, no, you dope. Like is a preposition...
...LIFETIME READING PLAN (318 pp.) -Clifton Fadlman-World...
...Critic Clifton Fadiman, the Schweppes-man of belles-lettres, thinks that everyone's mind is dreadfully underdeveloped. He is right, of course. A load of guilt equivalent to the combined weight of Dr. Eliot and his "Five-Foot Shelf" rests upon nearly all college-exposed Americans, by whom too many of the great books are unread or unremembered...
...includes Aldous Huxley while snubbing both Camus and Sartre. No Eastern literature makes Fadiman's All-Academe list because, he confesses, it does not appeal to him. But he includes a volume (No. 100 of the great books) that does appeal to him: An American Anthology, by Clifton Fadiman...
...Obviously recovered from ankle trouble, Clifton S. Jones's colt Warfare, the 1959 two-year-old champion from California, easily won the $27,900 Swift Stakes at New York's Aqueduct to show that he is still the top contender for May's Kentucky Derby...