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...About ten years ago," says Author-Critic Clifton Fadiman, 69, "I began to get less interested in grownups and more interested in children." A lifelong addict-pusher of good reading for adults (Book-of-the-Month Club judge, author of The Lifetime Reading Plan), Fadiman has now set out to hook the grade-school crowd. From his hilltop home in Santa Barbara, where he is also preparing a critical history of children's literature, Fadiman is editing a brisk new magazine called Cricket...
...mercifully does not talk down to its readers. It offers a good range of literate, mind-widening material-fairy tales, poems, tongue twisters, articles on space and sport. Illustrations are mostly in black and white. "There is no substitute for the written word and the well-drawn line," says Fadiman. "We want Cricket to act as a neutralizer against the cheap, the sensational and the violent...
...Mercury....Mauritania has one modern hospital. Six doctors. Four midwives. Fifty-eight secondary school teachers. But that's an improvement...."I felt that shadow come right through my skin and the marrow of my bones." --From Darkness over the desert, a scientific adventure story by Anne Fadiman...
...Anne L. Fadiman '74 has been selected as the new undergraduate columnist of the Alumni Bulletin...
...narrators introduce the audience into the town as it lies sleeping just before dawn. Reading their passages from two almost invisible black books, the narrators (Ann Fay and Kim Fadiman) appear to be gazing down on the village itself, as they involve their listeners by addressing them with the repeated invitation, "only you can see..." The other narrator, the blind Captain Cat (Peter Wirth), was, for Thomas, the natural bridge between the eyes and the ears of his radio listeners, but Wirth's grizzled dignity lends an especially sympathetic dimension to the part...