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...EMILY PRAGER HAS TAILORED her new collection of short stories to a narrow audience. Thirty-one-year-old graduates of elite private high schools and the Ivy League, urban exiles from the liberated upper-middle single females living in Manhattan and afraid of sex will understand it perfectly. Anyone older or younger, male, married or from the suburbs will spend at least some of their reading time hoping to be let in on the joke...
...expected to pick up on the plethora of New York catch phrases with which Prager litters her stories. Even "The Lincoln-Pruitt Anti-Rape Device," a cynical tale of women fighting in combat-ridden Vietnam, contains a few passing references to "a gay friend of mine who does props for the Met." Bendel's department store, the "Hers" column, Jerzy Kosinski, Brearley and, yes, the Fly Club manage to sneak into the collection's other stories...
...team of experienced Middle East hands worked on the cover package in New York, including Associate Editor William E. Smith, who has specialized in Middle East stories since 1973, and Staff Writer William Drozdiak, Cairo bureau chief until last summer. Supervising the entire Sadat section was International Editor Karsten Prager, onetime Middle East bureau chief, who recalls his own invigorating colloquies with Sadat: "Sooner than any other Arab leader, he recognized the value of putting his case to the Western world. His openness was one of his best qualities...
...fact, eight editions of the magazine outside the U.S., and each one can augment the fare in the domestic editions with stories of special interest to our foreign audience. The task of making TIME responsive to the regional concerns of its global readership belongs to International Editor Karsten Prager. Building upon the U.S. TIME, Prager decides each week which stories to add overseas with his staff of writers and researchers and, frequently, whether to put a different subject on the cover. When war broke out between Iran and Iraq last week, it was of course clear that the story belonged...
After four decades of what one Basque described as the "boca cerrada " (closed mouth). Prager did find that many citizens were reluctant to speak with reporters. Suárez too has avoided the press, although he granted Prager an off-the-record interview at Moncloa Palace a few days before the election. Sums up Prager: "Suárez has kept his counsel and his cool. He is plainly aware that Spain has changed and continues to change, that the new look in the society is more than cosmetic, and that the new look in politics will have to follow suit...