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...analyst to cure. The Jewish Blues, which reveals the Portnoy family guilts and secrets even further, appeared the following month in the first issue of New American Review. The fourth and by far largest section (28,000 words) appears in the Review's current issue (New American Library, paperback; $1.25). Titled Civilization and Its Discontents, after Freud's famous essay on the conflict between the individual's instinctual urges and society's demands for restraint, the latest monologue is the freest, funniest, most touching-and terrifying...
Aside from the recent acquisition of Popular Library, a paperback book company, Ackerman has had no publishing experience. His business is the salvation of troubled firms. A native of Rochester and a graduate of Syracuse University and Rutgers Law School, he became a partner in the New York City law firm of Cooper, Ostrin, De Varco & Ackerman in 1957, specializing in mergers and acquisitions. In 1962, he decided to try his own hand at the business. He bought controlling interest in Perfect Photo Inc., later merged it with three other firms: United Whelan Corp., a drugstore chain; Hudson National...
Supporters point to the extended publicity with which the report was received. Several papers have run ths summary, now being serialized on the editorial pages of the Boston Globe and more than one million paperback copies have been sold commercially. They point to the Senate, which after two unsuccessful attempts passed the Open Housing bill 71 to 20, immediately after the Commission released the Report...
...pickings from a crop of anti-Johnsonia. Even a sympathetic study, the forthcoming A Very Personal Presidency by TIME White House Correspondent Hugh Sidey, stands in need of extensive updating. Taking account of the backlash of sentiment for the President, New American Library has already dropped plans for a paperback edition of the cartoon anthology L.B.J. Lampooned, will retitle Larry L. King's My Hero L.B.J. and Other Dirty Stories. Simon and Schuster's Quotations from Chairman L.B.J. is suddenly mustier than Mao, and Macmillan's Sam Johnson's Boy, an unflattering account of Lyndon...
...ANTHOLOGY OF CONCRETE POETRY. Edited by Emmett Williams. 342 pages. Something Else Press. $2.95 (paperback...