Word: harpers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recording (in Partisan Review) of a quack doctor's monologue in Chicago's "Bughouse Square"; Paul Bowles's eerie portrait (Mademoiselle) of a missionary's effort to hold the attention of primitive Indians by playing them jazz records; Peggy Bennett's sketch (Harper's Bazaar) of the thoughtless, almost affectionate cruelty young boys can show to each other; and Edward Newhouse's story (The New Yorker) of a father who delights in ceremonial tributes to his dead soldier...
...reorientation in the avant-garde literary world. Half of her stories are from the highbrow little magazines, but these are no more experimental or daring - and no better in quality - than the stories she picks from the slicks and fashion magazines. One reason: increasingly these days, magazines such as Harper's Bazaar and Mademoiselle have been offering more than the little magazines can pay for the work of the more understandable in the avantgarde...
HERE'S ENGLAND (378 pp.)-Ruth McKenney and Richard Bransten-Harper...
These familiar facts and some interesting new observations about the menopause are included in a new book, You'll Live Through It (Harper; $2.50), by Seattle's Dr. Miriam Lincoln. Greying Dr. Lincoln, who is 50 herself, attacks many old wives' tales about the menopause...
...Oxford Union under the persuasion of [British Philosopher] C.E.M. Joad [TIME, June 12]. He is an irresponsible smart aleck, the measure of whose irresponsibility in attacking America may be gauged from the fact that he had the effrontery to write a book about the U.S. entitled The Babbitt Warren [Harper, 1927] at a time when he had never even visited this country...