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With that sort of prospectus, the St. Louis-born Tangier expatriate was ordained as the high priest of the beats even before his first "novel," Naked Lunch, was off the Grove press. Now, in his second of what promises to be a Doomsday Quartet, Burroughs invokes a personal and "very inglorious Pantheon to give the modern world the needle in the same way Zeus and his gang broke up the ancient one." His Zenlike Zeus is the Persian Hassan-i-Sabbah, prophet of an 11th century cult of hashish takers...
...women reach middle life with out a heartache," says the prospectus of Clarke College, so Clarke sets about to head off the heartache. The small Roman Catholic girls' school in Dubuque, Iowa, accepts the commonplace theory that fledging a family of children can leave a woman with too much time and a painful lack of purpose. Consequently, Clarke trains its girls to be come, as President Sister Mary Benedict explains it, "the heart, the educated heart, not only of the home but of communities outside the home...
Buckley Jr. in his prospectus for the first issue of the National Review, "will forthrightly oppose the prevailing trend of public opinion; its purpose, indeed, is to change the nation's intellectual and political climate." Only five years out of Yale, Buckley had already made a national name for himself with his first book, God and Man at Yale, which accused his Alma Mater of preaching liberalism and secularism to the exclusion of almost everything else. And in that fall of 1955, the articulate young conservative found the political weather parlous. "Clever intriguers are reshaping both parties...
...original prospectus for TIME, written more than 40 years ago, took pains to express "a respect for the old, particularly in manners," and an "interest in the new, particularly in ideas." In an era when the pace of change puts almost overwhelming emphasis on the new, the old may often seem old hat. But not a week's news goes by without offering-when studied in some depth-a few striking examples of how much the very old affects what is quite...
Practical Education. Navasky was a Yale law student in 1957, when Monocle was born. The first issue sold briskly on campus, encouraging the fledgling editor to abandon the law and move to New York. Since then, Navasky has had a practical education in the hazards of publishing. One prospectus, he says, was printed on paper stolen from another magazine. Monocle has gone begging three times, with growing effect. Last year it raised $75,000 from such unlikely sources as a Manhattan banker, a provident Harvard professor and Mrs. Marshall Field...