Word: randomly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...couple of random thoughts to fill up the ever-present white space...
Carrying complaints to the point of disloyalty may be hard to imagine, but the CIA got a firm reminder that not all its ex-agents play by the old-boy-network rules. Last week Random House published Decent Interval, a 592-page book by Frank Snepp, 36, an eight-year CIA veteran who had been a senior analyst in Viet Nam and was one of the last Americans to leave Saigon as it was falling to the Communists in 1975. Snepp charges that the CIA and the State Department inexcusably botched the evacuation. He claims that the U.S. not only...
...discussion of her writing. A few details are vouchsafed: the ideal detective story is 50,000 words long; the short story is not a good form for mysteries; neither is much love interest, nor an overcomplicated midsection of the plot. Her ideas began as a couple of random images: "Girl and not really sister-August." Contrary to popular belief, writing was never easy for the author of 68 books. She fretted for weeks before getting into a novel and required constant expressions of reassurance from Sir Max. "I got very tired, and I also got cross," she states...
Richard Scarry should get an award for everything but his titles. His Best Make-It Book Ever! (Random House; $4.95) is nothing of the kind; it is merely the best of the year. Like his other amuse-yourself books, this fine, inventive paperback shows young readers hundreds of ways to brighten a rainy day or beguile the hours between Sesame Street and supper. This is a cut-and-paste book for all seasons: there are valentines to make, Halloween masks to wear, even Christmas decorations to festoon the tree-including a Santa Claus bird and a mouse on ice skates...
...number of students signed up for the fast may be misleading, however. About one fifth of 100 students questioned a the Freshman Union in a random survey last night had signed up for the fast but were eating dinner anyway, taking second servings from friends who were not participating in the fast...