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...chap who put an eye patch on the Hathaway shirt man and made Commander Whitehead a household beard consistently heeds the advice he has dispensed for decades. In the Confessions he warned never to be boring, and to repeat that previous campaign-the earlier book was intended to drum up business, and did-would thus be a sin. Blood, Brains and Beer also adheres to other cardinal principles of admaking: the straight story, smoothly told, sells stuff best; it is wrong to lie, but feel free to omit; humor should not be overdone (it is a bit too scarce...
...queasy feeling of watching a friend's once happy marriage bleed to death in a well-manicured living room. The truly autobiographical Neil Simon cannot face that. In all of his plays, Simon has never looked at pain for more than a moment without the shield of a Hathaway eye patch. He uses the wisecrack as a poultice to ease the sight of life's open wounds...
Although both impressions and sales figures differ among sellers, many feel that the cults current in the '60s have disappeared. "I would say that there has been a wide broadening of interests over the last five years," Robert Hale, general manager for the Hathaway House Bookshop in Wellesley, says, "Students are no longer locked into a sort of pathetic search for identity and freedom," he says. "They are much freer...
Hale says students who shop at the Hathaway shop have spent increasing amounts of time upstairs in the children's book department...
...Rich Man Poor Man" has been a big seller at the Hathaway store recently, along with "Sybil,"--a work that has experienced a marked increase in popularity since a TV series by the same name began this fall. Hale says he does not understand why students are buying these books, explaining "these are suburban house wife books and I am very surprised that students are buying them...