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Truman Capote called it a "nonfiction novel," a dubious tag designed to draw attention to the undeniable fact that he had used the novelist's craft to render reality. Through painstaking accretion of minutiae, In Cold Blood harrowingly anatomized a multiple murder and in the process brought literary life to six dead people. They were the four members of the prosperous Clutter family of Holcomb, Kans., and their killers. Perry Smith and Dick Hickock, who were executed in 1965. Although the book was flawed by a seeming excess of sympathy for the criminals, it had the sweeping force...
There is just enough Yaleness in the Journal to keep it from being simply a magazine published in New Haven, but not so much as to render it dull to outsiders (or even Yalies). The first issue, for example, has Bruck's review, an informative piece on New Haven Mayor Richard Lee's years in office; a profile of actor-director Kenneth Haigh who is now in the Yale Drama School's Repertory Company; a short story by a Yale senior; and a vignette of a Yale undergraduate who makes movies instead of attending classes...
...House Provision is kept in the final act, it will render the administration unable to undertake much needed expansion of its anti-poverty effort. In fact, OEO programs will have to be cut back in several areas...
Leland Moss's production of Toys in the Attic is a willful distortion of a medicore play. But by the mysterious calculus of such things, the distortions hide what should be hidden, muffle the play's mechanical grinding, and render it one of the finest dramas I have seen in some time...
...lumped-together, take-it-or-leave-it ConCon package, Rocky chose to take the bad with the good. He announced that he would vote yes-and then try to get what he did not like changed later. New York's voters will get a chance to render their decision next month...