Word: novelistically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...club today includes 286 doctors, lawyers, businessmen and journalists. U.S. Steel Board Chairman Roger Blough is a leading Penguin, so is Investment Banker Robert Lehman, Novelist Paul Horgan, Poet Robert Lowell and opera-loving ex-Boxer Gene Tunney. One opera buff recently tried in vain to buy his way into the club with a $25,000 "gift," but membership is by invitation, and openings usually occur only when a member dies. Though the club is frequently accused of snobbism, past President Robert Snyder, a corporation lawyer, declares that "economic status is unknown and unimportant. I imagine that William Rockefeller...
Magic Ingredient. Kilgour, French & Stanbury, whose clients include Novelist Patrick Dennis, David Merrick and CBS Chairman William Paley, thought nothing of fitting two vicuna overcoats for a 20th Century-Fox executive in the VIP lounge of the London Airport while he was between planes. Boston Symphony Orchestra Conductor Erich Leinsdorf remembers that "whenever I played at Festival Hall, Stanbury would go there and study my motions so he could improve my full-dress suit...
...book in question is U.S. Novelist Hubert Selby Jr.'s Last Exit to Brooklyn, a stomach-turning homosexual excursion, which the British government refused to act against on the theory that the book probably had literary merit. Balderdash, retorted Sir Cyril Black, a Conservative M.P., friend of Evangelist Billy Graham and watchdog of British public morals...
Incriminating Tendency. As usual, assorted defense experts denied obscenity; indeed, Novelist Anthony Burgess declared that Exit "might make sexual activity of any kind repugnant." Publisher Marion Boyars called Exit "a sad book, a true book" and "too American" to sell. As for gain, she said, her firm had sold 11,247 copies and netted only $3,315.20. Appearing for the prosecution, Dr. Ernest Caxton, an authority on homosexuality, called the book an "extremely dangerous" guide to homosexual experimentation. Book Publisher (Pergamon Press) Robert Maxwell, a Labor M.P., blasted it as "sociological material with filth and muck just added for profit...
Sarah's father was everybody's friend, never missed a party, played a lively jazz guitar, and drank. Her mother was dark, beautiful, and "seemed to live as if she had a splinter of ice in her heart." Novelist Barrett has a fine ear for the edged remarks that are designed ostensibly to pass over the head of a child but really aimed as by-blows in the battle for the child's fealty. From father (comforting his daughter after a nightmare): "Your mother doesn't have nightmares when she's asleep, only when...