Word: randomization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Faulkner's Essays, Speeches, and Public Letters, originally envisioned a tiny, undramatic book where scholars would have easy access to these trivial works of a great author. A volume, in short, which would least embarrass poor Faulkner. Something which could be hidden be-beneath the stacks in Widener. Instead, Random House saw fit to publish this material in fairly glamorous form, with 233 pages of fine paper and large print. In this setting, such pieces as Faulkner's 1935 review of a book entitled Test Pilot by Jimmy Collins look just plain silly...
...TURN by John O'Hara. 214 pages. Random House...
BEEN DOWN SO LONG IT LOOKS LIKE UP TO ME, by Richard Fariña (Random House; 329 pages; $5.95), is a pot-and-peyote boiler about a supercooled campus hippie named Gnossos Pappadopoulis. Written by the brother-in-law of Folk Singer Joan Baez, the book is fashionably half-coherent, a collection of Kerouacky kinks. Gnossos turns on four times a day, calls girls "man," says "dig" a great deal, makes like the Green Hornet with cringing officials at Mentor University, rucksacks triumphantly to Mexico, Las Vegas and Cuba, knows how to hot-wire a car, plays Corelli...
While Kansas enrollment has grown to 15,000, the school is also experimenting with ways to keep the intimate feeling of a small campus. Next fall 600 freshmen will be selected at random to live in the same dorms, take the same classes and eat together, to form a "college within a college." But under Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe, a physician and former dean of the Kansas Medical School, the stress is on expansion. Enrollment will go up another 25% by 1972. A $30 million building-construction program was begun in 1965. To top it all, an $18.7 million scholarship...
PAPA HEMINGWAY by A. E. Hotchner, 304 pages, Random House...