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Remember--This is for real. Take a few minutes and cruise on in. Twenty to 30 correct answers will probably put you at the head of the class. So get the lead out [a pencil] and sit down. This is your life...
Felker is an idea editor, not a pencil editor. He has had remarkably accurate antennae for coming fashions -and a knack for catchy headlines that are often better than the articles and make each fad seem momentous. The list of writers for whom he has provided a springboard is also impressive. As features editor of Esquire from 1957 to 1962, he helped steer Norman Mailer into reportage and published some of the first so-called New Jourrialists, most notably Tom Wolfe. On the old New York Herald Tribune, where he edited the Sunday magazine that was to be reincarnated...
...called him 'Hot'-he was always fired up-but he never liked it; so when he got away to Annapolis, he wrote me right away: 'Dear Gloria, Please do not call me "Hot" and please do not write to me on lined notebook paper with pencil.' " That she and her mother laugh long at the memory is one more piece of the story they tell-a healthy piece. For anyone who sat out the parched family pieties of the Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon years, the sound of home laughter that laps all sides of Jimmy Carter...
...Animal, done with oil paint and fur, challenge traditional notions of what a painting is. Underlying the deliberate crudeness and banality of many of the works of this period is a keen sensitivity to and enjoyment of the sensuous feel of paint and the manipulation of brush and pencil. This sensitivity takes the form of subtle relationships between line, tone and texture in his graphic works...
...John Ehrlichman's reaction to the 13 charges Jaworski read against him during a plea-bargaining session: "I read, 'The last possible charge is mutilation of a Government document Ehrlichman's face twisted. He hurled the pencil to the floor forcefully and said, 'That...