Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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KRAFT MUSIC HALL (NBC, 9-10 p.m.).* Eddy Arnold hosts the first of six variety shows entitled Country Fair. His guests this week: Al Hirt, Joanie Sommers and John Byner...
...Since Mr. McNamara has been telling us about Senator Kennedy's role in formulating foreign policy while a member of his brother's Cabinet [April 19], it would only seem fair that McNamara inform us, in detail, of Bobby's efforts at that time to enlarge our commitment in Viet...
...tonics perhaps at Matt and Terry Gallagher's. The women can be depended upon to keep the co-op nursery school running smoothly. And thank heavens for Irene Saltz, without whose all-fired energy Tarbox would never have achieved such an effective League of Women Voters or Fair Housing Group. Quiet, lovely town, Tarbox. Or so it seems...
...classic cliche, she is her husband's severest critic. "I can't think of one of my novels she's really liked," says Updike. "When she read The Poorhouse Fair, she said, 'Why do you want to write about all those old people? After The Centaur, she said, 'You can't understand all the mythology.' After Of the Farm, she said, 'Nothing happens.' And with Couples, she said she felt that she was being smothered in pubic hair. Actually I did take some...
...four earlier novels-The Poorhouse Fair, Rabbit, Run, The Centaur, Of the Farm-were praised, sometimes extravagantly, as the work of a man who was surely destined to write a "major" novel. The trouble was that he was too much the poet, too much the pointillistic stylist, too self-concerned with scenes, images and feelings sensed in a severely limited autobiographical world. He was justly acccused of hiding behind his family and childhood, of not daring the larger, extra-domestic themes that his technical prowess promised, or conversely, of trying to inflate his tiny genre scenes into balloons of cosmic...