Word: oral
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pantheon of stars: Eugene O'Neill, James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, William Faulkner, Sinclair Lewis, Isak Dinesen, Truman Capote, John O'Hara and W.H. Auden. Now, in this posthumous volume, Cerf tells what goes on behind the bookshelves. Using tapes of his interviews for Columbia's oral history program, along with his diaries and scrapbooks, his widow, Phyllis Cerf Wagner, and former Random House Editor Albert Erskine have compiled a breezy and vastly amusing memoir-identical, one suspects, to the one the gregarious panelist on TV's What's My Line? might have written himself...
Still, writes Author Roy Hoopes, "1 doubt if the nation has ever been as united in spirit or purpose before or since." Hoopes interviewed nearly 200 Americans for this oral history of the home front. Many of them speak wonderingly of an almost innocent exhilaration triggered by World War II, and how different it was from Viet Nam. Says Stephen Ailes, who came up from Martinsburg, W. Va., to serve in the Office of Price Administration: "You just routinely worked till midnight; you worked Saturdays. You always had in mind the fact that all these guys were in foxholes someplace...
...president. Lance's explanation is that he "very specifically" had the right to talk about the N.B.G. "with regard to stock and management" until the Dec. 31 divestiture date. A Lance spokesman said that the permission to be involved in selection of a new president came via an "oral understanding" with Senate Committee Chairman Ribicoff. Yet Ribicoff told TIME: "I never recall any such conversation. Nothing was ever discussed about management...
...they walked back to the car Carlo felt a little like Rex Humbard, or Oral Roberts, or maybe Billy Graham. He glanced at his mother, who by now was beaming like the lady in the wheelchair who gets up and hollers "I Believe" every night at the Oral Roberts meeting, and at his father, who looked pretty well converted too. In fact, Lou looked like he'd been born-again, all fire and enthusiasm and eagerness to give all he owned for the cause...
...program includes: 50 mile forced nature walks; The weekly oral treasure hunt--gold fillings, silver bridgework; Arts and Crafts: lampshades are our speciality; Tatoos: every kid wants one; Scientific experiment kits, so they can perform the experiments they learn from...