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...REVOLUTION by Alex Karmel. 387 pages. McGraw-Hill...
With nearly all the moral fastidiousness of an itinerant siding salesman, Alex Karmel bamboozles the reader into believing that the title page of his book means what it says. There seems no reason to doubt that My Revolution, Promenades in Paris 1789-1794 really is the diary of Restif de la Bretonne, author of The Pornographer, The Perverted Peasant, and Paris Nights. Restif was indeed a writer of the revolutionary period, a fascinating, talented lowlife who wrote some 200 books that mixed pornography and social criticism in roughly equal measure, and died in 1806 after Napoleon, oddly enough, gave...
...TERESE KARMEL...
Something Wild (Prometheus; United Artists) is somewhat woolly. Director Jack Garfein and Novelist Alex Karmel are listed as the men who wrote the movie, but it plays as though the script had been done by three other people...
Alfred Chaoul Khozouri Bakhash '59 of Lowell House and Teheran has received the $500 Helen Choate Bell prize for his essay "Combat with the Sun: A Study of Wallace Stevens' 'Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction.'" Honorable mention went to Mrs. Roberta Segal Karmel '59 of Boston for her essay "William Dean Howells and the Isolated Personality...