Word: paperbacks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...PAPERBACK HERO...
...University of Virginia. Eventually, says his agent David Obst (who also set up a $1 million take for Woodward and Bernstein), "Dean stands to make as much as Woodward and Bernstein each made from All the President's Men, which is now the hottest paperback in the country." While Nixon and others whose downfall he encompassed have not nearly such rosy prospects, Dean, 36, was looking forward to years of gilt-edged living as he and Mo jetted for a Caribbean vacation...
...brought little change. Corruption is still ubiquitous-but so, happily, is the editorial cartoon, grinning out from banks of gray prose. In about 16 square inches, that journalistic institution still manages to encapsulate crises, expose pretensions and eviscerate swollen egos-all with a few well-drawn strokes. Two new paperback editions underscore the point. On the far side of history, Thomas Nast: Cartoons & Illustrations (Dover) reveals a mature artist whose work could exhibit the bite of Daumier and the mordant wit of Twain. His meticulous crosshatching created three ineradicable symbols: the Democratic Donkey, the Republican Elephant and the Tammany Tiger...
...more extravagant admirers, who tend to be women, consider Erica Jong a female Roth, Vonnegut and Mailer combined. Her first novel, Fear of Flying, had a brisk hardback sale after it was published late in 1973 and since its appearance in paperback last November, a rapid rise to No. 1 on the bestseller charts. At Houston's Rice University it is used in an English course and at Radcliffe, the Atlanta Y.W.C.A. Women's Center and elsewhere as the subject of discussion in consciousness-raising groups. It is also discussed in therapy, since psychiatrists and psychologists have found...
RELIGION AND SEXISM, edited by Rosemary Radford Ruether (Simon and Schuster; 356 pages; $3.95 paperback, $9.95 hardback). Those who seek the roots of sexism in Judaism and Christianity can find plenty of them in this collection of essays edited by Theologian Ruether, a Roman Catholic and an outspoken feminist. Eleven scholars-ten women and one man-investigate various, mostly pejorative images of women in Old and New Testaments, in canon law, in the thought of the Church Fathers, medieval scholastics, Protestant Reformers and even such modern theologians as Karl Barth and Paul Tillich. In this collection, at least, Tillich...