Word: finding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...magazine alive at all costs? Well, no sooner had Warren left than the gang got together and decided that what they had to do was file bankruptcy papers. And they did! That was last February. Then the Boys went out to collect as much money as they could find. Which they did! More than $100,000 from ten new investors-enough to keep the IRS off their backs...
...average of 4% of the money owed to them over the next three years. The judge said, well, you guys seem to be doing pretty well as far as I'm concerned. So you're back on your own. As we leave the Ramparts Boys, we find them back in the clubhouse happily pecking at their typewriters. Editor Scheer exults: "We did the impossible." But tune in to our next exciting episode...
There are, of course, some Viennese who dislike opera-just as there are some who find Sachertorte unappetizing, the waltz old-fashioned and the Danube dismally dirty. But they belong to a special class of people that Austrians consider teppert, or slightly mad. Even more than Milan, Vienna is the heart and soul of opera land, the city of melodic Mozartian fantasy and thunderous Wagnerian pageantry. Every coffee house has its tables of self-appointed critics; taxi drivers know all the gossipy details of each new backstage feud. Though impoverished Austria badly needed more practical things after World...
Some people find all this hard to take. But most of Fielding's readers, who sense this atmosphere in the Guide, seem to like it because it gives them a feeling of clubbiness. Sophisticated travelers?or those who would like to seem sophisticated?would rather be caught in the Lido nightclub in Paris than be seen carrying Fielding's Guide (some leave it in the hotel room or carry it with a plain brown wrapper). As American tourists become more experienced, as travel becomes ever more natural and casual, Fielding will have to change or lose his popularity. But right...
...principle that "people's lives are their private lives. A husband and wife come to Europe, they're together, together, together. They're in a rut. The wife decides to go someplace the husband doesn't want to go. So he'll want to know where he can find a good-looking girl. So we'll tell him. It's part of life and part of travel." On the other hand, the Guide makes a point of warning that "there's a new strain of gonorrhea so hardy that it eats sulfa and penicillin for breakfast...