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...FICTION...
...215T CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). Walter Cronkite explores the far-out ways scientists are developing to transmit words, pictures - even thoughts - in "The Communications Explosion." Helping Walter get the message across are M.I.T.'s Computer Scientist Joseph Weizenbaum, Science Fiction Writer Arthur C. Clarke, Automation Expert John Diehold. Premiere...
Joys of Grass. Bolstering this familiar argument are 400-plus pages of statements, essays, papers, adulatory fiction and documentary evidence, some of which are impressive, some simply a drag. Composer-Writer Paul Bowles is present with a marihuana morality tale, and so are Baudelaire and Rabelais-under one name or another marihuana has been around for thousands of years. Beat Poet Allen Ginsberg weighs in with an essay on the joys of grass, which he wrote while smoking the stuff. It is safe to report that marihuana does not noticeably affect Ginsberg's literary style: he is as opaque...
...FICTION 1. The Secret of Santa Vittoria, Crichton (2 last week...
What has become more apparent as more passages from the book leak out is that its portrayal of Lyndon B. Johnson is lopsidedly prejudiced. The early versions, in fact, made John F. Kennedy so heroic and Johnson so villainous that some readers wondered if they were reading fiction or fact. It was so prejudiced that even before the Kennedy suit, Manchester had been persuaded by his publisher and Kennedy advisers to eliminate much of the offending material, including the opening chapter which, reportedly, had L.BJ. virtually forcing the late President to go hunting, kill a deer and have it mounted...