Word: editoral
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Buenos Aires reporters clustered around the visiting literary lion and his hostess. How did Graham Greene find the food in Argentina? "I like to drink more than I like to eat," he smiled. "That is a joke," interrupted Victoria Ocampo, noted essayist and editor, "because he has come to a house where the hostess does not touch a drop of alcohol." No kidding, continued Greene, he found the Argentine whisky he was served "interesting but not very good." Er, and politics? "I am a great admirer of Fidel Castro," said Greene, after which Miss Ocampo allowed...
...that the Pope's grudging approval of only one medically inadequate means of controlling birth-the rhythm method-is inconsistent with his acknowledgment that sex is important as an expression of a loving marital relationship. Forcing a man and wife to practice rhythm, says Gunther Mack, ecumenical affairs editor of a German Protestant weekly Sonntags-blat, is "like sending a man on a sinking ship to a lifeboat full of holes...
...this addressed to 'Venerable Brothers and Beloved Sons'? Where do the women come in?" More seriously, assailants of the encyclical were disturbed that it was a one-man decision reflecting a minority view within the church and not a consensus of the faithful. Father Joos Arts, editor of the radical Dutch Catholic newspaper Nieuwe Linie went so far as to warn that "the Pope is isolating himself from the church...
Karl Shapiro is Karl Shapiro, poet-professor (University of Illinois) and former Poetry magazine editor who won the hearts and votes of the 1945 Pulitzer Prize Committee with V-Letter and Other Poems, a collection of tough-but-oh-so-gentle verse that balanced war disillusionment with hope for a humane future. The conviction behind Shapiro's courage has long been that organized cultural activities subvert "the fine arts"; he sees the latest threat in a corrupting coalition of irresponsible youth and commercial clowns. In To Abolish Children, the title essay in his assortment of literary trade pieces wrapped...
...local pub personnel. Suddenly offered an obscure prize for his poetry, Enderby borrows a suit from a friendly chef in return for writing a cycle of torrid love poetry to the barmaid the chef is wooing. At the prize ceremonies Enderby is courted by Vesta Bainbridge, features editor of a women's magazine and unscrupulous conversion-monger for the Catholic Church. Soon after, Vesta marries the hapless Enderby and carts him off to the Holy City, where, after several unsuccessful attempts, he at last appears to submit to a basic convention...