Word: randomness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...THIS HOUSE ON FIRE (507 pp.]-William Sfyron-Random House...
HOMAGE TO CLIO (91 pp.)-W. H. Auden-Random House...
...only eccentric. There is Big Foot, a solemn and terrifying prankster who expresses his view of an unwashed world by getting a job driving a bus, hauling his passengers five miles beyond the city, and then forcing them to get out and bathe. There is Man-Man, who writes random words in the street, repeating a vowel for several blocks if he likes its looks. Author Naipaul, a native of Trinidad, understands well that his comical characters do not live comic lives, and his best sketches are shaded with compassion. When police drag a much-admired fraud named Bogart...
VENETIAN RED (503 pp.)-P. M. Pasinetti-Random House...
Face to Face. Despite the merger's logic, the Knopf-Random alliance has its startling side. In an era of increasingly faceless publishers, Alfred Knopf and Bennett Cerf are among the few who are known outside the trade, but their personalities are remarkably different...