Word: randomly
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...recklessness, predicted that by then John would be dead. But the brash young Irishman's prophesy turned out to be correct; he was 29 when the form for Who's Who arrived. Little had changed decades later, when O'Hara wrote to Bennett Cerf at Random House: "It's no secret that I am working to get the Nobel. I am constantly at work, not only quantitatively but also maintaining as high standards as are within my powers, and this has been going on for some time...
...quotation is from 1876 (Random House, 364 pages, $10), Gore Vidal's new novel. In any other year but the Bicentennial, 1876 would merely be a bestseller. It was, after all, prompted by two earlier Vidal bestsellers: Washington, D.C. (1967), a study of mid-20th century political scrambling; and Burr (1973), a revisionist appraisal of the foundering fathers. "With 1876" says Vidal, "I've examined the dead center of the country, the year of the Centennial, and there's a nice symmetry, obviously, that it's coming out the year of the Bicentennial...
This "nice symmetry" is even nicer calculation. For the historical fervor fostered by the Bicentennial promises to turn 1876 into a quasi-official happening. Prepublication signs have been uniformly bullish. Random House and Ballantine Books jointly paid Vidal an advance approaching $1 million for hardback and paperback rights. The Book-of-the-Month Club, which has made 1876 its main selection for March, shelled out more than twice its normal fee of $85,000. A first printing of 75,000 copies has virtually disappeared under a flood of orders, and a second printing...
...recommend that all Quad Houses remain four-year Houses in contrast to the three-year River Houses, and that the present system of choice be retained. This year, freshmen will once again rank the 12 Houses in order of preference and then anxiously await the out-come of a random assignment process that grants most roommate groups their first choice but inevitably bestows upon some their eleventh or twelfth choice...
...BOYS FROM BRAZIL by IRA LEVIN 312 pages. Random House...