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...AMERICAN REVIEW: NUMBER 1. New American Library. Fiction by Philip Roth, criticism by Stanley Kauffmann and poetry by Louise Gliick highlight Volume No. 1 of this lively and commendable attempt to revive what is best described as the paperback-book magazine...
Adding to the ferment, two pieces sharply disagree. Stanley Kauffmann explains how he got jobbed by the New York Times for trying to do "serious drama criticism" during his brief tour there last year. By contrast, Benjamin DeMott attacks Kauffmann's most discussed criticism: the two articles he did for the Sunday Times accusing homosexual playwrights of always trying to"invent a two-sex version of the one-sex experience." As DeMott sees it, the homosexuals contribute a valid theatrical experience -"a steady consciousness of a dark side of love...
...million pills at $15 a thousand (they cost 56? a thousand to make). Next, the D-men raided an outfit aptly named Fixaco Inc., operating out of a motel in Imperial, Mo., where they said they found 650,000 bennies. The agents made six arrests, including John R. Kauffmann, operator of the motel and of Fixaco, who was charged with having made two illegal sales. He and the other five all pleaded not guilty...
That the Times wanted Kerr was not surprising either. In an effort to improve its reviews, the paper had hired Stanley Kauffmann away from the New Republic only eight months before, but Kauffmann never quite succeeded in adjusting to daily journalism. Now he will return to the New Republic as associate literary editor, and talk about "The Art of the Film" on TV. "It's not so much letting Mr. Kauffmann go as asking Mr. Kerr to come in," said Executive Editor Turner Catledge, who admits to having approached Kerr twice before. "Kerr seems to suit the New York...
Savage Joke. Last week Merrick's Marauders struck again at Taubman's successor, Stanley Kauffmann. On a recent trip to London, Merrick found 100 copies of The Philanderer, a 1952 novel by Critic Kauffmann that falls pat to Merrick's purpose-the book was the occasion of an unsuccessful prosecution for obscenity in England. (" 'Darling,' she whispered. How lazy, a woman's first words after lovemaking; how husky and bare"). Cackling wickedly, Merrick bought up the lot and shipped it home. Then he mailed 89 copies to editors and columnists all over the U.S. -and ten copies to key editors...