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...than 20 million, copies a year, chiefly by serving up westerns, whodunits and the kind of boy-meets-girl story that can be illustrated by a ripe cheesecake jacket. Occasionally, however, Avon offers a change of diet, and its latest, Stories in the Modern Manner, is an adventure in highbrow smorgasbord: 14 short stories and a one-act play from the literary bimonthly, Partisan Review. The editors never explain what the tag "modern manner" means, but most of these stories do have one thing in common: they are about the end of something-love, life, adolescence or illusion...
...tactics of Leninism are smoothness and ability to maneuver," said a recent issue of Moscow's Communist, the party's highbrow journal. "One of the main demands of correct tactical leadership is always to find a link in the chain of events by seizure of which it is possible to take the whole chain into the hand...
...story about Palacios, which, like several others, leaked out of jail last week, typified to Argentines the spirit of defiance and even gaiety with which many of Perón's recent political prisoners bore their lot. High-spirited Victoria Ocampo, sixtyish, wealthy editor of Buenos Aires' highbrow literary magazine Sur, reportedly kept her sister prisoners laughing by telling jokes, organized a drama group to put on French plays. But the hero of most of the stories was indomitable old Alfredo Palacios. When fellow prisoners speculated whether there had really been an organized anti-Perón plot...
Would Texans listen to three hours of classical music every night? Charles Barbe, a former symphony conductor turned highbrow disk jockey, thought they would. But, he recalls, "every advertising agency in town told us we were chumps." Finally, the owner of Houston's station KXYZ-FM, Oilman Glenn McCarthy, decided to give Barbe, and Texas, a chance. Both came through with a symphonic bang...
...aging man who discovers too late, that life has slipped by him. This week 27-year-old George Lanning publishes This Happy Rural Seat, a brilliant first novel in which he spins some subtle variations on the Jamesian theme of the unlived life. A onetime staff member of the highbrow Kenyan Review, Lanning shows a gift for creating complex human beings that marks him as one of the ablest new novelists in some time...