Word: randomness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...blind men buffeted in a high wind. Time moves slowly, emotions are muted, action is rare. The prevailing mood is one of hopelessness in the face of conditions neither invited nor understood. One of the masters of the genre is Marguerite Duras, 48, whose novel The Square was a random dialogue between two strangers who meet in a park, talk endlessly and go their separate ways. Her present book has slightly more action, but it, too, is really a long interior monologue that reads like a long sigh of regret...
...GREAT INFIDEL (431 pp.)-Joseph Jay Deiss-Random House...
Born at a literary party, the Review is edited by Barbara Epstein, wife of a Random House vice president, and Bob Silvers, a Harper & Row editor. They lined up an impressive list of critics (for free) and 20 pages of ads (for $550 a page...
Because the tested items are picked at random, Krabek said, the figures may indicate a more alarming situation than that which actually exists. He did not deny, however, that the situation in the Central Kitchen is "particularly...
...Lowell readings, which were inaugurated this year, will bring ten other writers to the House during the spring term. Adrienne Rich will read from her verse Feb. 26, and March 6, William Abrahams will read excerpts from his fourth novel, Children of Capricorn, recently published by Random House...