Word: randomization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rehash of the conspicuous happenings but to have something fresh to add to them; to spot in the unlikeliest places and widest variety of fields what is new, important and lively; and to provide a coherency and shape that will increase the reader's understanding of the random and complex events of the week. Three examples of what we try for in this week's issue...
Born. To Franç Sagan, 27, French hunt-and-peek novelist of random dalliance who recently published her fifth (see BOOKS), and Robert Westhoff, 31, an expatriate U.S. sculptor: a boy; in Paris...
...profitably bad reputation in the U.S. (Tropic of Cancer, free from federal restraint since 1961, is selling hugely, thanks in part to the police chiefs in some 60 communities, who hound it with a righteousness usually reserved for bookmakers who do not pay their protection money.) A random sampling produces: "Fresh from Europe, the American scene held about as much charm for me as a dead rattlesnake lying in the deep freeze. What can possibly give us the idea that we are a vital, lusty, joyous, creative people?'' "The American is an unsocial being who seems to find...
LETTING Go (630 pp.)-Philip Roth-Random House...
...press is on its way-we've just won the Nobel Prize." THE CONVERSIONS, by Harry Mathews (182 pp.; Random House; $3.50). This first novel by a young poet is an ambitious montage of word play, newspaper lists and fantasies: it all hangs together after a fashion, but some of the pieces might better have stood alone. The main story line concerns the hero's search for the significance of an ancient adze, but some of the meanderings are more interesting. The rapt admirers of a Spanish bullfighter receive stigmata-like wounds in whatever part of the body...