Word: deal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...interposed, thinking to appeal to his instinct for survival, "you're a Jew, aren't you? If we hadn't joined the fight against Hitler. you probably wouldn't be alive today. "Oh no, says he, "that was in Europe." His attitude then explains, I think, a great deal about his writing now: the glib, absurd equation of Hitler's factories of death and the war in Vietnam; the facile postmortem advice to the Jews of Auschwitz and Treblinka (they should have fought, he thinks, precisely because it would have made no difference) from someone who writes that the only...
...this abuse found solace in the thought that it could have been worse; and they were joined in this by their colleagues, who found further comfort in the hope or assumption that this kind of thing could not happen to them. (In these matters, the faculty have a great deal to learn from the student militants, who for all their factionalism, have a keener sense of solidarity; hence the universal cry for amnesty and the frequent demand for collective responsibility. We have all the more reason to be grateful to Prof. Stanley Hoffmann for his letter of reproof and indignation...
...deal is only for "advertising families," the salesmen are told to say, "two or three families in each area." These are families whose testimonial letters may be used in future sales campaigns...
...troubled marquis, and his vulpine, immobile face helps him to range between anger ("Don't you ever say 'Enough' to me!") and pitiful pleading ("But if ... I changed?") with indifference. The orgies are only slightly more titillating than a Playboy centerfold, and a good deal less polished. According to this film, the marauis' most notable contribution to esoteric eroticism was spreading jam on women's nipples...
GEORGE W. CABLE: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF A SOUTHERN HERETIC by Louis D. Rubin Jr. 304 pages. Pegasus. $6.95. Cable was the first post-Civil War novelist to deal forthrightly with racial injustice. This fine biography tells how the controversy that he stirred up turned him from a passionate witness into a confectioner of costume romance...