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...entry: You Can Do the Cube (Penguin; $1.95) by Patrick Bossert, 13, a London schoolboy who discovered the cube only this spring during a family ski vacation in Switzerland. Within five days he had mastered the monster, and later began selling his schoolmates a four-page, mimeographed tip sheet for 450. An alert editor at Penguin saw a copy and persuaded the prodigy to turn pro. The 112-page result contains three dozen "tricks" for solving the cube (using logic rather than math), as well as a chapter on "Cube Maintenance" (to loosen a stiff cube, "put a blob...
Ozick is currently translating poetry for a new Penguin edition of Yiddish verse, edited by Irving Howe and Ruth Wisse. It is a labor of love. "It's so wonderful to make another poem in English and to set yourself up in rivalry with the original. It's the only writing I find enjoyable. All other writing is so painful; I would do anything to avoid writing. That's probably why I read so much. But reading inspires and leads to hope for more writing...
...potent" and "cheap" so that the fun is missing and the meaning is blurred. What she has doffed in avoirdupois she has put on in ancien Louis B. Mayer régime costumery, particularly one black-and-white Theoni V. Aldredge outfit that makes her look like a Hollywood penguin...
...employs 240 workers. Mutton, delivered to homes twice a week, is still referred to as "the 365," meaning that people roast it and stew it and chew it 365 days a year. One happy result of the war is that the Falklanders decided to start a weekly newspaper, the Penguin News. Another welcome consequence: demand for colorful Falkland Islands stamps (printed in England) has grown so much that the government earned more last year from foreign philatelists than from the income taxes kelpers...
...members of such groups. But before you permanently ban Bloom County from your pages, I suggest that you read its November 14, 1982 Sunday installment, in which assorted characters begin to complain about the things they find offensive and finally conclude, "My gosh...LIFE is offensive!!" (Opus the Penguin then notes that they are suffering from "offensensitivity") You might also take a look at the latest issue of Daedalus in which Stanley Fish and Wayne C. Booth debate with considerably subtletythe question of how one decided whether a humorist is being ironic or merely offensive-as exemplified in Randy Newman...