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...Cancer Research, found himself under enormous pressure. One March morning, he gathered up a dozen grafted mice and started upstairs from his laboratory to show his work to Dr. Robert Good, head of S.K.I., and the dominant figure of modern immunology. On the way, Summerlin took a felt-tipped pen from his pocket and darkened the skins of two animals...
...deserted stage at the other end of the room, an aloof Catherine Mackin was writing out her report for NBC with a green felt-tipped pen, before dusting her nose, brushing her hair, and readying for the call from David Brinkley...
...less. Moral indignation, that main current of contemporary American thought, seems nonexistent. Yet Vidal's travelogue through this dark time is as funny as it is unsettling. With malicious wit, irresistible gossip and sturdy research, he turns 1876 into an ornate 200th birthday card inscribed with a poison pen...
That was hardly enough to maintain the Vidal style, much less Edgewater, which he had bought in 1950. Searching for a way to support himself with his pen, Vidal decided to try writing for television. The Iron Pyrites age had arrived and with it came a voracious demand for new material. Vidal rapidly mastered the demands of the teleplay form and ultimately commanded fees as high as $5,000 for a one-hour script...
...most readers, to be tired of Doonesbury is to be tired of life. Throughout American history, the best comic artists have reminded their followers that politics and chaos are separated by a fine line. For the foreseeable future, when that line is drawn, Garry Trudeau will be holding the pen...