Word: papered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Israelite does not appeal predominantly to Jews, Northerners or radicals, but to readers with such varied views as Harry Truman and Chief Justice Earl Warren, Adlai Stevenson and Thomas Dewey. Golden has no room for news stories, pictures or headline type. Instead, he fills the 16-page paper with witty, erudite discourse on subjects ranging from Dr. Johnson's recipe for oysters (baked in a flour-and-water batter) to Cato's hangover cure (raw cabbage leaves...
POEMS FROM THE GREEK ANTHOLOGY, translated by Dudley Fitts, New Directions, 141 pages, Hardcover--$3.00, Paper...
...this all. Wolff along with Frederic Rzewski '58 then appeared as composer-performers in an Invention for Two Pianos (Mar. 27, 1957, 9:15-9:25 p.m.). They each put a sheet of paper with some jottings on the rack and proceeded to punch out a random series of notes vaguely reminiscent of the chicken-pecking school of composition. From time to time they stopped, glared at each other for a while, nodded, and then renewed the assault. I was ready to surrender after the first of these skirmishes. It is a shame that Rzewski, a fine pianist and perhaps...
...degree of honesty attainable by a writer is best shown by Fisher's Vridar Hunter tetralogy, a four-novel Wolfean autobiography written during the Thirties, now reprinted in Cardinal paper-back edition. His objectivity is also shown in what is probably his most famous work--Children of God: An American Epic, a novel of almost a thousand pages which won the 1939 Harper's prize. Several years before the publication of Children of God, Bernard DeVoto had called the story of the Mormon migration the great American novel that will never be written. In his review of Fisher's novel...
Take the Army meet, for instance. On paper, the Cadets loomed as the strongest team in the Heptagonal league. Senior weight thrower Pete Harpel set the tenor of the meet in the first event. He threw the 35-pound ball 55 feet, 6 inches, six feet farther than his best last season, to pick up the first place for the varsity...