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...Barnett Newman, 62, better known as an abstract expressionist, has recently attracted attention with his sculpture. His 26-foot-high Broken Obelisk, now standing outside the Seagram Building, was built at the Lippincott Environmental Arts fabrication plant in North Haven, Conn. Newman supervised each step of the process, had to draw a sloping line across the top of the inverted obelisk to show workmen exactly where to cut. Then the base was "flame cut"-i.e., burned with a cutting torch, in order to leave a grainy pattern of vertical lines...
William D'O. Lippincott, Princeton's Dean of Students, announced the Administration's shift in policy in an official statement to the Board of Trustees last month...
...BATTLE OF THE LITTLE BIGHORN by Mari Sandoz. 191 pages. Lippincott...
...Contrary to popular opinion, Prudence and the Pill was not written by Graham Blaine. It is a "bedroom farce" about what happens when a suspicious husband replaces his wife's Enovid with aspirin. Pregnancy is the obvious result, but when? And who? Written by Hugh Mills, published by Lippincott, and not worth the effort...
...CRYING OF LOT 49, by Thomas Pynchon (Lippincott; 183 pages; $3.95), the author of V, is a metaphysical thriller in the form of a pornographic comic strip. The heroine, a girl named Oedipa Maas, one day finds her "Chevy parked at the center of an odd, religious instant. A revelation trembled just past the threshold of her understanding, a hieroglyphic sense of concealed meanings, of an intent to communicate." She pursues the revelation, and finds herself involved with a mysterious organization named Tristero. She pursues the secret of Tristero, and finds herself involved with such improbable characters as Stanley Koteks...