Word: farquhar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nice brown ribbon. If a reader can bring his gaseous juices under control after pondering the editorial ("We think that the few selections between these covers have the passion of youth, mixed also with a complexity of concern."), he will find a fine, if editable, story by David Farquhar, a rather sensational reappearance of Piero Heliczer in "Unpoem Number One," and a couple of West Indian sketches by Keith Lowe...
...Both Farquhar and Lowe show they write because they have nothing better to do--it's not idle. Farquhar's "The Stage of the Year" stumbles over words sometimes, but his dialogue is terse, his frenzied story about the purposeless destruction of a dog very real. Lowe's strength depends more on what he knows about people and customs in Jamaica, whom and which he treats softly and without awe in a swift telling. Heliczer's piece proves that irreverence and irrelevance sometime mean the same thing, and is in his usual adroit good humor...
...appreciate very much the attention you have given my views on the financing of higher education. I think on the whole you have done an excellent job, and I am particularly grateful for your editorial and the excellent summary of the issues by Mr. Farquhar. He not only summarized my position effectively but also pointed out some relevant difficulties...
...Farquhar is of course entitled to his opinions about the question of religious interest at Harvard, and his conjectures about how and why the Newsweek article was written are interesting. But if he is concerned to get at the truth about the question, there are better ways than sniping, sardonic reviews...
...carbon copies of his stories, sent them out with acquaintances, passers-by and an Austrian black-marketeer. So effective was their improvisation that the first big convoy of correspondents who arrived in Austria with eyewitness accounts of the Soviet counterattack in Budapest found that Jones, Marton and Reuters' Farquhar had scooped them. Since telephone service was restored, Jones has managed to phone out at least two stories a day in calls to Stockholm, Frankfurt or Vienna...