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...generations ago, was solemnly examined by the Justices. They permitted it to live on-with a few softening touches. The Justices upheld a three-man federal court in the case of Russell Baker of Gibsonville, N.C. Two years ago, as a sixth-grader, he was paddled with a wooden drawer divider for playing with a ball in a proscribed part of the schoolyard. His mother went to court to challenge the North Carolina law that permits teachers to inflict corporal punishment of a "reasonable" nature...
September 27 was the big day, the day the Sox clinched first place in their division, and the day that the top drawer in many a bureau was cemented shut. And that was some three and a half weeks ago. Come on, people, give us a break. Our nasal passages are in serious danger of extinction...
...manuscript might have rotted in that locked drawer if it wasn't for Hunter's twin brother. While Fred was in Africa for the Monitor, Paul Hunter, (who is also a playwright and has four one-acts opening in Connecticut the weekend of his brother's opening here) re-discovered it and mailed it off to Arthur Ballit, head of the office for Advanced Drama Research at the University of Minnesota. Ballit was impressed and went to work at his specialty: exploring production possibilities for promising new plays. He submitted it to several contests and organizations. Eventually he connected...
...length play he ever wrote was about two people living in a museum. It was produced at UCLA and enjoyed moderate success. In 1968, when he completed, after several years, the manuscript of the second play he ever wrote, The Hemingway Play, he locked it away in a private drawer. Writing is a slow, careful process for Hunter. Even if he had actively sought one, a production would have been difficult to arrange. He was, after all, a young free-lance writer without theater connections, about to leave the country to become a foreign correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor...
...public activity" which requires substantial material means; once the political conditions had changed, the production of "undesirable" directors was stopped. Writers are much more difficult to silence. They may not be published and thus lose touch with their readers, but they can still write privately, "for the drawer" as they now say in Prague. Besides, the importance of a readership for the writer still has to be proved: Salinger has for the last 20 years deliberately secluded himself from a public he considers rather a nuisance to his creativity...