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...latest issue of New West magazine, Ross discloses that he first conducted the Steps experiment in 1975. At that time he sent 21 pages of the book to four publishers. Results of this first total rejection were published in Harper's Bookletter, a now defunct biweekly. That article also contained Kosinski's advice that next time Ross should offer the entire text of Steps...
Vicious rose to fame in 1977 as a bass guitarist with the now-defunct Sex Pistols rock band...
...schools that lack large endowments and openhanded alums, the main alternative is aggressive sale of their wares to new groups of students. New York's 21,500-student Pace University, which has flourished to the point of gobbling up the campus of defunct Briarcliff in Westchester County, specializes in courses and classroom hours tailored to the need of working adults. With a similar adult-education program, the National University of San Diego, where the average age of students is 30, has grown in seven years to a 15-acre downtown campus and an enrollment...
Most of these pieces appeared in the New York Times Book Review, for which the reviewer wrote a column, now regrettably defunct, called "The Good Word," or the New York Review of Books. Sheed's opinions seem right most of the time, but not so invariably right as to be insufferable. Too much Tightness shuts off debate and stifles the thought process. Sheed provides a good mixture of wisdom and nonsense, so that the reader finds himself saying, "Yeah, yeah, right," and then, "Now wait a minute!" He is properly appreciative of Edmund Wilson, sound on Walker Percy...
...argument against renaming the library states, "All claims against Charles Engelhard are based on a single article from the now-defunct Ramparts magazine; no confirmation of the smears made against him has been forthcoming simply because none exists...