Word: paragraphs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cohen gave a fairly good impressionistic report of my speech. However two errors, one of sound, one of sense, crept in, all in one paragraph. I stated that more people were taking drugs out of boredom with what the society gives them. I cited the mass media as throwing shit from a barrel at them in the form of entertainment. As this statement came out in your paper it could be interrpreted [sic] as meaning all people us [sic] drugs out of boredom. It would not do to leave you with this low impression of drug users or drugs...
...Absolute Natural." Burton trained as a navigator, but the war ended before he could fly missions. He spent the next two years playing rugger for the R.A.F. He has never saved a single theatrical notice, but he will unblinkingly refer anyone to "page 37, paragraph i of Rugger, My Life" a book by Wales's own Bleddyn Williams, the Red Grange of Rugby. "I played with a wing-forward," writes Williams, "who soon caught the eye for his general proficiency and tireless zeal. His name: Richard Burton. But it was in CinemaScope that he caught the eye after...
...Cortina, after the first two days of the demanding brackets, loops and paragraph threes of the compulsory figures, she was 59 points ahead of her closest rival. Just the same, she hung around the rink until 11 p.m., watching other skaters work. Then she went out and put on the most dazzling free-skating performance of her career...
...Housing and Home Finance Agency, one of whose branches, the Urban Renewal Administration, handles the federal grants for urban renewals projects. The authorization for federal urban renewal grants comes from the 1949 Housing Act as amended, most significantly in 1954 and 1961. The mortgages you mention in your final paragraph are insured by the Federal Housing Administration, which is theoretically another branch of the Housing and Home Finance Agency but tends to be quite independent in its operations. Jack Krauskopf...
Unfortunately, however, the "relevance of Jane Austen" is not at all clear. It is only mentioned once, in the next to last paragraph. Kampf claims that the solution to the dilemma of the Jewish writer, who either had to assimilate and lose his Jewishness, or get stuck in the dead-end of "ghetto literature," is "the novel of manners." But he never does explain what he means. He says Bernard Malamud's writing, for instance, is "claustrophobic" and smacks too much of the ghetto. But is anyone's writing more claustrophobic than Jane Austen's? Is The Magic Barrel...