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...Assassin, despite the fact that he was sworn to secrecy. Ford did not, it should be noted, have any trouble getting his book published due to his position on the assassination, while simultaneously all the networks prohibited coverage of dissenting opinions and edited their programs on the subject to conform with the findings of the commission...
...always in debt, and in times of financial need, short stories were his bread and butter. The Saturday Evening Post paid up to $4000 for a potboiler Fitzgerald could finish in a day or two, so he often turned to the Post even though he chafed at having to conform to their writing requirements...
...list of recommendations released yesterday, Mayer suggested that all Americans conform to a "two-meatless-days-a-week" schedule. Mayer also criticized the progress of the World Food Conference in Rome, saying the United States should put pressure on the Soviet Union and the "new rich" OPEC countries to contribute major help to world food relief...
WHAT I FOUND out over the next several years was that discussion courses here usually conform to one of several types. First there is the Hollywood-Squares-With-Pedant-Moderator type, typified by a graduate seminar I took in the Department of S*******. I came across this course when I was going through a Great Name stage, when I was a Boswell looking for his Johnson, a neophyte looking to sit at the feet of some guru. I found my big name, but the course became more of a quiz show than an investigation of the sociological foundation of literature...
...doubt there have been some art critics who wished, in self-indulgent moments, that art history were neater than it is, that the work fitted the pet theory more smoothly. The sight of a critic physically altering an artist's work to conform to his own ideas about it is, mercifully, almost unknown. But it happened recently-to David Smith, who died in 1965 and is probably the greatest sculptor in U.S. history. Readers of this month's Art in America were electrified to learn from an article by Art Historian Rosalind Krauss that since Smith...