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Located on the east side of the Yard beside the President's house, the underground addition will contain four levels, providing 104,000 square feet to store 1,100,000 books. The upper two levels will add space to Houghton Library for its Manuscript Division, Theatre Collection, and general stacks...
...look at a writer's eyes. They tell me a great deal." Without the need for optic examination, she took on California Writer Robert Stone, whose excellent first novel, A Hall of Mirrors, was published last year. Agent Donadio had to pry every page of the jumbled manuscript out of Stone, and since the pages were not numbered, she had to spread them out on her living-room floor and rearrange them before the book was in shape for submission. Later, when Stone went into a navy-blue funk, she made him finish the novel. She also made...
...Faculty. I think their academe freedom is infringed by this action, and in a slightly more remote sense also that of Professor Watson. This is so because Watson was denied his presumed first choice for publication on grounds other than the Press's judgment of the quality of his manuscript. It is true, of course, that this did not result in the complete suppression of the manuscript...
Soviet writers and intellectuals have been further upset by the long-rumored ill treatment of writers in the Ukraine, where the party does things much more quietly. In a manuscript that reached the Western press last week, Ukrainian Television Newsman Vyacheslav Chornovil, who is now in a Soviet labor camp, detailed the repressive methods of the Ukrainian secret police, who have hustled at least 15 top intellectuals off to labor camps. The police invaded their homes without search warrants, confiscated their manuscripts, and, after endless interrogations about supposed anti-Soviet writings, had them convicted at secret trials...
...incorrect to state that "Pusey unexpectedly decided to get involved." As you note on your editorial page of the issue of February 14, Mr. Pusey received letters objecting to the manuscript from scientists who figured in it. Mr. Wilson kept Mr. Pusey fully informed of reactions received by the Press, and it was with Mr. Wilson's knowledge that the matter was placed before the Corporation. Mark Carroll Director, Harvard University Press