Word: mitfords
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...There is the archvillain." said Publisher Bennett Cerf when he encountered Author Jessica Mitford a few months ago in Manhattan. "I hope you are not going to murder...
Cerf had ample reason for apprehension. The scourge of the profession of undertaking had recently turned her journalistic skepticism toward one of Cerf's sideline ventures. As a result, in the current issue of the Atlantic, Miss Mitford dexterously deflates the Famous Writers School, a heavily promoted mail-order concern in Westport, Conn...
...school's "guiding faculty," as its advertisements stress, includes Cerf and such other U.S. literary figures as Faith Baldwin, Bruce Catton, Clifton Fadiman, Phyllis McGinley and Max Shulman. "There is probably nothing illegal in the FWS operation," writes Miss Mitford judiciously, but she encourages would-be writers to take state-university correspondence courses for a fraction of the cost...
...largely responsible for the school's financial success. Prospective students are wooed by ads that imply guiding faculty members will help judge aptitude tests; there are also brochures that claim "all these eminent authors in effect are looking over your shoulder as you learn." In reality, writes Miss Mitford, the guiding faculty does no teaching and does not even take a hand in recruiting the school's regular instructors...
...system. The relationship is an odd one. Panthers treat their white supporters like penitents, accepting their money and then calling them "honkies" and worse. Displaying a strange sense of masochism, whites take it and come back for more. At a recent party at the home of Author Jessica Mitford to raise funds for the Panthers, Hilliard engaged in a shouting match with Chicago" Seven Defendant Tom Hayden. "You mother- !" cried Hilliard. "Bobby Seale is in prison and you're running around free...