Word: postscript
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...might be worth speculating--an academic question, one might say--how former Dean Barzun would have treated last April's disturbances at Columbia. In a postscript dated May 3, he explains: "The completed typescript of this book was in the hands of the publisher six weeks before the student outbreaks of April 23-30 that disrupted the work of Columbia University. I have since found no reason to change or add to what I had written months earlier." Since the book was written in "a feeling of communion. . . with the chief officers of Grayson Kirk's administration," it might...
...flesh a closet Republican-how else account for his inner 'Yeah man, yeah, go' when fat and flatulent old Republicans got up in Convention Hall to deliver platitudes on the need to return to individual human effort?" Mailer's only second thought was a postscript remark that he "would probably not vote-not unless it was for Eldridge Cleaver...
...Proud Postscript. Just two days later, blandly ignoring their previous denial, the Soviets reported that Zond 5 had indeed flown around the moon. It carried out its "program of research in outer space," they said, and was continuing on its flight. Then Lovell added a postscript: the Soviet news agency Tass, he told reporters, had actually called Jodrell Bank to ask what was happening to the spacecraft...
Although Shaw wrote Androcles as a children's fable, he intended it to have allegorical significance. "My martyrs," he said, "are the martyrs of all time, and my persecutors the persecutors of all time." When he came to add his Postscript in 1915, he stated: "The most striking aspect of the play at this moment is the terrible topicality given it by the war.... We see that even among men who make a profession of religion the great majority are as Martian as the majority of their congregations." Comedy or no, Androcles would once again, I think, have...
...regular edition complete with Preface and Postscript and the Shaw Alphabet edition are both available in paperback, published by Penguin Books.)The inflated Roman Emperor (REX ROBBINS) who will eventually be deflated...