Word: harpers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...press itself recognized its considerable contributions to the Kennedy campaign. Said Columnist William S. White, who is also Washington man for Harper's Magazine: "The press was partly responsible for the [Kennedy] landslide. It made Kennedy's nomination inevitable days before it actually was." Earl Mazo, author (Richard Nixon: A Political and Personal Portrait) and national political correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune, agreed: "Probably he'd have made it anyway, but the press gave him a big psychological boost by presenting his claims so affirmatively...
MANI (320 pp.)-Patrick Leigh Fermor -Harper...
This yoga position, called "Reintegration," is recommended by a new sort of yogi. Not only a Westerner but a Benedictine monk, Father J.M. Dechanet found in yoga a valuable approach to Christian prayer and practice. Last week his book, Christian Yoga (Harper; $3.75), was on U.S. bookstands, complete with nihil obstat and imprimatur. Father Dechanet, 54, now prior of the Monastery of Saint-Benoit at Kansenia in the new Congo republic, has already found a following for his ideas in France among Christians who admire the physical and psychological disciplines of the East without accepting its negative and impersonal theology...
...complete artist, and was merely a collaborator with Perkins on the Scribner "assembly line." Wolfe cut himself free to prove that he could go it on his own. He died of brain tuberculosis four months after submitting a 1,200,000-word manuscript to his new editor at Harper's, who sliced it up to make The Web and the Rock, You Can't Go Home Again, and a book of short stories. In this last torrent of words, the influence of Maxwell Perkins seems badly wanting...
MERRY MONARCH: THE LIFE AND LIKENESS OF CHARLES II (274 pp.)-Hesketh Pearson-Harper...