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...consortium last week submitted its report to the House Subcommittee on Post-Secondary Education, which is currently considering a financial assistance bill drafted by chairman James G. O'Hara (D- Mich...
Nychis said that implementation of the consortium's proposals would raise the cost of the present O'Hara bill from "about $2.15 billion to about $2.5 billion...
...decidedly not. A seasoned New Yorker writer can make even New Yorker writers interesting. Besides, from the beginning, Ross's humor magazine attracted remarkable talents: Alexander Woollcott, Robert Benchley, Dorothy Parker, E.B. White, Wolcott Gibbs, S.J. Perelman, John O'Hara, Edmund Wilson, Peter Arno, Charles Addams, Saul Steinberg, George Price. The list can (and in Gill's telling does...
Gill's account is laced with some acid. John O'Hara is drubbed for his vanity and status seeking. Thurber is recalled as a man "never so happy as when he could cause two old friends to have a falling out." Gill justifiably twits Movie Critic Pauline Kael for long-windedness and openly recounts the depressions, breakdowns, bouts of alcoholism and premature deaths that struck a number of his colleagues. He resurrects no quips that set the fabled Algonquin Round Table on a roar. Most drinking staffers, he reports, preferred dark saloons "suitable for people with a glum...
...writers can be as entertainingly cerebral as Updike. Yet after nearly two decades of distinguished service as the thinking man's John O'Hara, Updike seems to have reported everything he knows about the sexually tormented middle class. The ground covered in A Month of Sundays is fast becoming scorched earth...