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...Ujifusa got the attention of an obscure Boston house called Gambit, Inc., which dropped its spring book list to get the Almanac published. It has become a word-of-mouth bestseller already. In the six weeks before publication date (Feb. 24), 25,000 copies in hard-cover ($12.95) and paperback ($4.95) have already been sold. Apparently there is an audience for political specifics that run the gamut from a district-by-district breakdown of federal spending to a concise catalogue of the nation's top 50 defense contractors and their yearly earnings from the Government...
...have to look elsewhere. When I was a cynosure I spake as a cynosure, and when I grew up I gave the vocabulary to the parodists. Actuarially speaking, a generation has grown since I first appeared. Gazing at that boy with the red hunting cap on the old Signet paperback, I wonder: What would he think of me today? But then that gray-and-white snapshot in your high school yearbook-what is that youth to you? Would you have anything to say to each other...
...even the young are senile. America in the '50s was undergoing adolescence. Again. I was its sudden, unbidden spokesyouth. But surely there have been free alterations since 1951. Nonfiction is in the bucket seat and drives mankind. By now I should be a literary footnote. But no: the paperback sold more than 3,000,000 copies between 1953 and 1964. And even more between then and now. How do you figure that? I mean, those glancing insights, those adolescent knight-errantries, aren't they old news? Haven't our tastes altered 180 degrees...
...dead of night, plugging sewage outlets of illegal polluters. But unlike the Eco-Commandos and the Fox, contestants had not necessarily acted out their ideas; all they were asked to suggest were projects that caused no serious harm. In fact, of all the entries, published this week in a paperback book, by far the most violent comes from a fourth-grade class in Wilmette, Ill.: "Kidnap the presidents of the big car companies and put them in a room and for 30 seconds turn their car pollution on them." It did not win a prize...
...Christ story, as well as by a number of human perplexities: Why, for example, did everything go so wrong for Jesus? Why didn't he choose to make his appearance on earth today, when he could have the benefit of mass communications to teach his followers? Armed with a paperback edition of Fulton J. Sheen's Life of Christ, which compares and calibrates the Gospel stories, Lloyd Webber and Rice burrowed and borrowed from Matthew, Mark, Luke and John to create a libretto. The first three Gospels, says Rice, seem more dependable, since John "was much hotter on visions...