Word: readers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That is quite an overwhelming reader response to a publication only two issues old-and one which reads as though it were put out by a bunch of truck drivers. Teammate, as it happens, is the monthly magazine of a bunch of truck drivers. In bareknuckle prose, it has been throwing straight jabs at the Teamsters Union hierarchy. The union officials, who are just filling in while Jimmy Hoffa finishes his jail sentence, are described as corrupt bosses and the "enemy within." The magazine has publicized alleged Mafia involvement in the misuse of pension funds and attacked dynastic policies...
...Persian cloth, a chrome lamp, a billboard fragment, a lute. Does all this glitter mean anything more than an egotist's smile? Author Barbara Plumb, editor of the Home section of the New York Times Magazine, chats tersely about each dwelling, but wisely leaves conclusions to the reader...
...more likely to read Pascal, whom Voltaire hated, or Rousseau, who hated Voltaire, than Voltaire himself, who lives today mainly through Candide. In this black-comedy response to the evils of history, he seems closest to the modern reader, as in his conclusion: Cultivate your garden (modern translation: Do your own thing...
Professor Seltzer begins his introduction to the American Signet edition of the play, "The modern student of Troilus and Cressida -reader, spectator, and actor-is faced with complex problems of staging, character, and moral ideas." One suspects he wrote this before his attempted production; at any rate, its truth cannot be faulted...
...dear, dumb, gentle reader, if you're still with me after days and days of CRIMSON elegies on Washington marches, as well as rafts of my own ruptured prose, you're about to hear of the great odyssey that gave meaning to the whole weekend...