Word: funke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...book was scheduled to appear last week, and 5,000 copies had already been printed. But the Digest was adamant. "Reader's Digest has a point of view," declares Lewis, "and, it seems to me, has a right to its point of view. Funk & Wagnalls is not an independent publishing house but is our subsidiary." To which Baker, among others, retorted that this is precisely the danger facing book-publishing houses when they are taken over by large corporations, as Funk & Wagnalls was 2½years...
Editors at Funk & Wagnalls say they are at a loss to understand why the Digest felt so strongly about the book. It does not enumerate many more vices than are already known nor does it propose any startling reforms. "The thesis of this book is that advertising should be cleaned up from the inside," says a Funk & Wagnalls editor, "lest it be regulated from the outside. What could be more harmless?" Says Author Baker, who was in the advertising business for 30 years before he retired five years ago: "I, too, think advertising is good for business and business...
...censorship, the Digest gave Baker the 5,000 copies of his book and turned over the printing plates to him free of charge. He plans to sign a contract with another publisher this week; sales, prodded by the controversy, promise to be brisk. The Digest, meanwhile, plans to watch Funk & Wagnalls products more closely than before. "We will begin reviewing all manuscripts," says Lewis. "Reader's Digest will exert tighter quality control over Funk & Wagnalls...
...LOOKING DOWN GAME, by Leigh Dean, illustrated by Paul Giovanopoulos (Funk & Wagnalls; $2.95). When Edgar moves into a new neighborhood with no friends, he makes up a secret "looking down game," and discovers beetles, patterns in floating leaves, ants and a bird's nest. All year he plays his game until a new friend takes his hand and helps him up a tree. Then Edgar, a black city child, finds a new and even more exciting world to explore...
...questioner is William Thomas Wiley, 30, a graduate of San Francisco's cheerfully ticky-tacky school of funk art. For the past eight months, Wiley has been surveying the cool, hip New York City art scene, and the show at the Frumkin Gallery reflects his conclusions. Wiley finds himself impressed with "how important art is here, how it fits into New York culture." At the same time, he is irked by its high seriousness and the pretentious critical debates that rage about each new fad. "I'm both for and against the New York art scene," says Wiley...