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Huck Finn and Holden Caulfield turned a perceptive innocence against a world that was out to steal their childhoods. But it has long been assumed that they used up the territories of the rural backwater and the prep school. Padgett Powell's twelve-year-old Simons Manigault is proof that they did not. He is in fact one of the most engaging fictional small fry ever to cry thief: sly, pungent, lyric, funny, and unlikely to be forgotten when literary-prize committees gather later in the year. Edisto (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 183 pages; $11.95) is an impressive first novel...
...Simons says, "Something is happening, happening all the time." At this moment, Padgett Powell is showing us as well as any new American novelist that the territory ahead now lies in every direction of the compass...
STEPHANIE PADGETT...
...good teacher. He is now spreading that message by way of lectures and television (The David Frost and Today shows). NET will soon air a half-hour documentary filmed at P.S. 61. Though he has given up a regular schedule at the school (the program continues under Poet Ron Padgett), Koch likes to return every couple of weeks just for the fun of it. On each visit, he is startled to see how small the children really are: "From their poetry, I think of them as these huge creatures. And now I can't walk by an eight-year...
...This is the year of the woman at M.I.T.," M.I.T. junior Barbara Padgett said yesterday. Miss Padgett is the first coed to be concert manager of the M.I.T. Concert Band and one of four "firsts" in a wave of feminine leadership that is sweeping M.I.T...