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...Berkeley. "Young people today are concerned with making it, and part of making it is setting the table properly when the boss comes over for dinner. Self-improvement is a big part of the American dream, and learning manners is part of self-improvement." Or as Author-Editor George Plimpton sums it up, "Manners are better because they help you get along and get ahead. All this provides a sense of security and belonging...
NONFICTION: Bloods, Wallace Terry The Chronicle of the Lodz Ghetto, 1941-1944, Lucjan Dobroszycki, Editor ∙Finding the Center, V.S. Naipaul ∙ "The Good War," Studs Terkel ∙The Weaker Vessel, Antonia Fraser ∙ Writers at Work, George Plimpton, Editor...
...felt proud when I read George Plimpton's account of the Haitian marathon runner Dieudonne Lamothe, who came in last [SPORT, Aug. 27]. As a Haitian, I am accustomed to reading only bad reports about my people. Lamothe at least finished the race, which more than a quarter of the runners failed to do. After all, the point of the Games is to participate...
NONFICTION: Bloods, Wallace Terry The Chronicle of the Lodz Ghetto, 1941-1944, Lucjan Dobroszycki, Editor ∙ The Death Merchant, Joseph C. Goulden ∙ Josephine Herbst, Elinor Langer ∙ The Weaker Vessel, Antonia Fraser Writers at Work, George Plimpton, Editor...
...process in which the subjects nearly always collaborate, sometimes to the point of taking over the interviewer's role and inserting their own questions). They have been appearing in the quarterly Paris Review since its founding in 1953. With this new volume, the magazine's editor, George Plimpton, has assembled six collections of them between hard covers. Taken together, they add up to an intimate and engaging chronicle of contemporary literary life...