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...Brownie with him on a vacation in the Yosemite Valley and started clicking away at its prodigious crags. Since then he has become one of the most respected photographers and teachers in America, laden with honors and pursued by collectors. (His own selection of his work, with a foreword by Pulitzer Prizewinner Wallace Stegner, will be published by New York Graphic Society in September.) Adams, who joined the Sierra Club in 1920, has also had a substantial role in spreading the gospel of ecology and conservation...
...Portable Faulkner, an anthology of the author's work: "Most of the biographical sketches that deal with him are full of preposterous errors." Blotner's years of research, therefore, were spent in a noble cause. How, then, did things go so wrong? The author's foreword offers a clue to his-and much of modern biography's-ruling flaw. He has written, says Blotner, a biography of the works as well as the author, "since each element of them was in some sense a product of his total life." In short, whatever adds bulk...
...Celebrity Register, for one thing. Instead, publiciety's decennial Almanach de Gotha includes for the first time Rapist Eldridge Cleaver, Lesbian Jill Johnston, Red Black Angela Davis, Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre, and Senator Thomas Eagleton. For readers anxious to achieve such status, Microsociologist Cleveland Amory, in a foreword to the new edition, passes on some advice. The way to become a celebrity, said Aristotle Onassis, who ought to know, "is to get to control the people's playthings. The moment I bought Monte Carlo and controlled the most famous casino in the world, I became...
...poles of this novel are fuzzily drawn. Yet whatever Recovery is not, it remains a compelling, scarcely disguised self-portrait of a resplendent mind. It is worthwhile alone for its insights into the alcoholic and suicidal character. As Berryman's friend Saul Bellow observes in an astutely touching foreword to the book, what the poet "needed for his art ... he drew out of his vital organs, out of his very skin. At last there was no more. Reinforcements failed to arrive." *Jane Howard
...magic. Under such circumstances I had no choice but to give way." The allusion to "my friend" points clearly to Mao's since disgraced heir presumptive, Lin Piao, who had edited the Red Book in 1961 and in 1966 was in the midst of writing a glowing foreword to the new edition...