Word: randomness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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BEWARE OF CAESAR by Vincent Sheean. 244 pages. Random House...
...SOURCE by James Michener. 909 pages. Random House...
...anecdotal descriptions of lobbies, press, and House personnel, are primarily valuable for random inside information and for Bolling's priceless characterizations: William Colmer's political position "is perhaps slightly to the left of Ivan the Terrible"; Adam Clayton Powell's attention span "has been variously estimated as ranging between forty seconds to two minutes"; the Rule's Committee is "Howard Worth Smith's efficiently run cemetery" and "that contemporary version of a French Bourban soirees...
Except for Brezhnev's universal No. 1 spot, even the huge May Day tempera portraits of Kremlin leaders on display all over Moscow last week were in a rare random sequence, indicating that local committees either were hideously confused or had been told to post them in any order they saw fit. Well aware of the outside world's careful scrutiny, the Kremlin seems determined to give nothing away in what is no doubt a genuine balancing act, for the time being at least, among the quiet men who have followed the ebullient Nikita...
...world." Hot on the trail of success, he crashed New York at 23, leaped into a job at the World, quickly leaped out again, a back-country boy flummoxed by big-city journalism. Pressed by a friend, he decided to try a novel. He jotted down a title at random-Sister Carrie. Then he started writing, without a plot, without a character in mind...