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FICTION 1. QBVII,Uris(llastweek) 2. The New Centurions, Wambaugh (2) 3. The Underground Man, MacDonald (7) 4. The Throne of Saturn, Drury (4) 5. Rich Man, Poor Man, Shaw (9) 6. The Antagonists, Gann (5) 7. Passenger to Frankfurt, Christie (3) 8. The Passions of the Mind, Stone 9. Islands in the Stream, Hemingway (8) 10. Love Story, Segal (6) NONFICTION 1. The Greening of America, Reich...
...last week) 2. The New Centurions, Wambaugh (6) 3. Islands in the Stream, Hemingway (4) 4. Passenger to Frankfurt, Christie (3) 5. The Throne of Saturn, Drury (9) 6. Rich Man, Poor Man, Shaw (7) 7. Love Story, Segal (2) 8. The Antagonists, Gann (8) 9. The Underground Man, MacDonald 10. The Child from the Sea, Goudge...
What about, for example, the aphasics of the counterculture? The ad writer may dingdong catch phrases like Pavlov's bells in order to produce saliva. The Movement propagandist rings his chimes ("Fascist!" "Pig!" "Honky!" "Male chauvinist!") to produce spit. More stammer than grammar, as Dwight Macdonald put it, the counterculture makes inarticulateness an ideal, debasing words into clenched fists ("Right on!") and exclamation points ("Oh, wow!"). Semantic aphasia on the right, semantic aphasia on the left. Between the excesses of square and hip rhetoric the language is in the way of being torn apart...