Word: reade
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...just this minute brought TIME in from the mailbox, and had to thank you for it even before I read your cover story on Julia Child [Nov. 25] Her French Chef, on WTTW, is a regular in our house. Even the children-five of them, 14 down to four-prefer it to the tripe generally offered. I don't really know if they're learning anything, but they enjoy her breathless manner of speaking, are fascinated by the way she tosses around whole fish and cuts of meat, and are rather glad they don't have...
...record; and we are more impressive as a nation because a publisher can print that record and sell it in an open bookstore, sell it legally." Mailer went on to say that there should be no censorship. Allen Ginsberg also testified to the novel's poetic value and read the Supreme Judicial Court justices a poem he had composed in its praise...
Most people who defend the subjective legal standards necessary for deciding which books should be banned, argue that the young must be protected from lascivious literature at any cost. But almost all the books which appear in obscenity trials are adult books which adolescents are unlikely to read. It would appear that the moral defenders are actually trying to control the reading habits of adults who should be able to make their own choice...
After we had exchanged greetings, he extolled the friendliness of the people of his state. "Finest people in the world," he claimed, "and the very best of 'em live right up here in the Hill country." "But you know the trouble with people?" he continued. "People just don't read. And even when they do, they don't know what to do with a piece of information when they get their hands...
...favors of another order; she indignantly draws the line at moneylending. Eventually, Doe's own wife stakes him, unsolicited. And off he flies with Junior, into a roseate dawn. This is essentially the story of A Dream of Kings.* By Homerizing it, Harry Petrakis has made it read like a cameo epic-one that has now settled onto the bestseller lists...