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...review of the Knopf reissue of Miss Cather's A Lost Lady was fine, and I thought a shrewd appraisal of her, except that you took no note of the book's price, $7.95. It bears on a point of some interest to writers now, for the oblivion that swallowed her until now was of her own creation, due to the agreement she made with Alfred Knopf that she was never to be published in cheap editions. Tempus of course fugitted; my The Postman Always Rings Twice appeared in paperback for 250, and the floodgates were opened...
...Charles, Radcliffe's crew program began in September and ended in August, traversing the entire eastern seaboard and extending during the humid and oppressive summer months from the fetid, unpalatable and wretched Charles River waters to the ancient, mysterious, and tradition-laden hinterland of Europe: Moscow, Bursting from its oblivion-ridden past with the dazzle of a resurrected phoenix, though never resurrected, not even dead because it was born for the first and only time two short and immeasurable years ago, relegated by some to a perennial shadow stretching at the feet of the male rowing oligarchy thriving across...
Brian Auger has survived both Julie Driscoll, and numerous changes in what the English call rock and roll, and has surfaced, fronting an outfit called Brian Auger's Oblivion Express, at Paul's Mall, and will be there this week. You might also want to struggle out to Lenox and catch America at Tanglewood, seeing as how their Boston concert was cancelled. Judy Collins warbles (ouch) at Suffold Downs for the Sunset Series, Monday night, and the New York Dolls are booked into a place out in Revere. Where else. --F.V.B...
...week the Harvard community has a chance to respond to those sentiments. A group of students and faculty are sponsoring Vietnam-America Friendship Week. The week's activities afford us a chance to expand our limited knowledge of a people and a nation our government has bombed almost into oblivion, and thereby lay the basis for a firm and lasting friendship between the people of the two nations...
Little information had been collected about captivity in the South. As the prisoners came back from that oblivion, a few fascinating details emerged. No prisoner of the Viet Cong had received a single letter since April 1970. Kept on the move, the men to some extent became inured to such illnesses as malaria and dysentery...