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...priced labels-Odyssey and Stereo Treasury-that offer top quality but somewhat older recordings for about $2.50 a record. Capitol has more exciting news. It has succeeded in signing a contract for all Soviet artists and orchestras, and has rushed its technicians to Russia lest any foreign sounds creep in. The label is Melodiya-Angel, and the first issues are excellent...
...Creep. Idiot. Nut. Fool. Punk. Dirty s.o.b." For five weeks, three defendants hurled those epithets at Pittsburgh Judge Albert A. Fiok. At times, they threatened his life. Determined to avoid any conceivable grounds for reversal by a higher court, Fiok took it all for the sake of "a fair and impartial trial." Some trial. In frontier days, the defendants would have been hanged on the spot...
Novelist Carter Wilson's section, "Exposition and Narration" floats in what one Cliffie member calls an "atmosphere of creativeness." This week's two-hour meeting was spent on short stories by Borges, and Eliot, Berkeley, Joyce, Faulkner and Brecht all managed to creep into the discussion...
...added pepper and spice, Wolfe includes 52 "hard words," all-purpose insults that can be dropped in as needed. Example: "Hairy creep," which is Oiler Leisetreter in German, Troglodyte in French, Stupido scimmione in Italian and Espantapájaros in Spanish. "The insult must flash like lightning," admonishes Wolfe. "It must not be delivered tardily or with the hesitancy which is so often engendered if one is wondering whether or not the last syllable is to be inflected. Again, a slightly mangled pronunciation sometimes gives the insult a macabre quality; it may add to its stunning effect on the insultee...
Before 40, one adds and feeds to gorge the ego; after 40, one subtracts and simplifies to slim the soul. With the final image of one's existence even faintly in view, the self seems pettier and the words "service," "love of others," "compassion" not only creep into the middle-ager's vocabulary but add meaning to his life. In church work, social work, community fund drives, culture centers, middle-agers are always at the fore. Sol Linowitz, 52, chairman of the executive committee of Xerox Corp., defines his abiding purpose: "I want to leave the world...