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Dates: during 1960-1969
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URGENT COPY, by Anthony Burgess. In a collection of brilliant short pieces about a long list of literary figures (from Dickens to Dylan Thomas), the author brings many a critical chicken home to roost...
BEFORE they went to Switzerland to interview Novelist Vladimir Nabokov for this week's cover, Contributing Editor Ron Sheppard and Reporter Martha Duffy cabled a list of 21 questions, for which the novelist promised to supply written answers when they arrived. He got an early start on his work. The night clerk at his hotel awakened him at one o'clock in the morning with the peremptory announcement: "Le Telex marche encore...
...read with great interest your recent editorial on the steady erosion of the forcefulness of the word, 'fuck.' Realizing the need for an obscenity to supplant this fading epithet, we enlisted the aid of an Applied Mathematics section man to program the Harvard computer to run through the list of four-letter combinations (there are 26 to the fourth power equals 456,976 of them, if you ignore the necessity of vowels, etc.) in an effort to pick out the ten filthiest words in the English tongue. The word at the head of the list is so unbelievably obscene...
Ignacio, recipient last week of Harvard's Jack Fadden Award, annually presented to an outstanding athlete who overcomes physical adversities, added the Dana J. P. Wingate Memorial Trophy to his list of awards. The trophy designates the most valuable player of the Crimson squad...
...last week's maiden transatlantic crossing of the Queen Elizabeth 2 (oneway fares: $490 to $3,000), the VIP list read like a page from the London telephone directory and the formal wear was mostly rented. Newspaper reporters divided their attention between F.D.R.'s youngest son John and a passenger notable chiefly for having made 22 previous crossings. Desperately, they wove vignettes from such unpromising material as the pet white mouse in a first-class stateroom, the ship's minor collision with a whale, and a vicar selling oak trees to reforest Sherwood Forest. With the weather...