Word: columbus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...intriguing because any book by Roth is bound to stir up interest. Although only thirty-four, Roth has published two very good books. In his twenties he brought out Goodbye Columbus, a collection of five stories and a novella, which won the National Book Award for Fiction in 1960; a couple of years later, the novel Letting Go appeared. His other awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship and a grant from the National Institute of Arts and Sciences...
Writing in the current issue of the Criminal Law Bulletin, University of Mississippi Sociologist Columbus B. Hopper reports that only 10% of Parchman's 822 unmarried prisoners resent the husbands' privilege. Having studied the system since 1959, Hopper claims that Parchman's unique visits have kept marriages intact, bolstered prison morale and reduced homosexuality-all in sharp contrast to other prisons, where discontent and riots are often attributed to sexual tensions. Hopper adds that Parchman is hardly progressive in any other way; as a prison farm, it simply has more space for informality than conventional prisons with...
WALTER W. SEIFERT Associate Professor of Public Relations Ohio State University Columbus...
...WALDMAN Columbus, Ohio...
JEROME B. WESTIN, M.D. Columbus, Ohio...