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"What money?" Long John can tell Harpo is getting a little frantic when he hears that question.
The courts have long upheld the rights of editors to decide for themselves. This privilege is not as cost-free as some editors argue: foreign political leaders often deplore and consider harmful the sievelike nature of the American Government and the blabbiness of the American press. The gain is in...
At such moments the satirist turns reactionary. That is why Wolfe wiggles his eyebrows when he hears wealthy Easterners proclaim a distaste for fancy living and a love of the underprivileged: "Everybody had sworn off fashion, but somehow nobody moved to Cincinnati to work among the poor." That is why...
MORE CONSCIOUSLY, more deliberately than perhaps any other novelist in America today, John Updike creates characters whose private dramas mirror the dilemmas of their age. Intermittently they are reminded of the business of the world outside their own lives, of spaceshots and test ban treaties and civil rights confrontations. In...
Ward also finds reason to smile. Though the greater number of first-floor parties has inevitably raised the noise level in her basement apartment, she is just as glad that she hears markedly fewer complaints than last year. Requests for transfers are also rarer, and all stem from uncontrollable factors...