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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...page six for qualifications...
...signatures already on an antiwar petition. Polls show that 75% of the Japanese public opposes the bombing of North Viet Nam. "Asian problems should be solved by Asians," wrote Editorialist Shizuo Maruyama in the Japan Quarterly. Last week a group of 30 Japanese intellectuals took a full-page ad in the New York Times protesting...
...genial Canadian chilled fellow publishers by eagerly asking "Wanna sell?" At first, they usually said no, but later they often said yeah. When he ran out of papers to buy in Canada, Thomson shifted overseas and bought Edinburgh's venerable Scotsman. He took advertising off the front page and perked up the news coverage. He waded into television, setting up Scotland's first commercial channel. He bought Lord Kemsley's newspaper chain in 1959 and found himself on Fleet Street as the proprietor of the august Sunday Times...
Last Hope. The Maias is a social chronicle on the grand scale, a 633-page epic that depicts the decline of the illustrious house of Maia, and with it the degeneration of the Portuguese aristocracy. The decline reaches the critical stage when Pedro da Maia shoots himself because his wife has run off with another man and taken her small daughter along. Fortunately for the Maias, Pedro's absconding spouse has left a son behind, and Pedro's aged father undertakes to regenerate the family by nurturing its last hope...
...simpler impulse. In The Toilet, his most effective play, the action transpires in a latrine. And in this book, described on the dust jacket as an autobiography, he announces aggressively: "This thing, if you read it, will jam your face in my -." It will indeed. On almost every page, Author Jones, who is now 31 years old, makes reference to evacuation-generally to some form of erotic evacuation. The filth is rationalized as social protest and enshrined in religious allegory: Jones explicitly identifies himself with Dante ("Dante, me") and describes his life as a Dantesque descent into a hell called...