Word: reviewable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Then [Oct. 28] you print a rude letter about me from someone who's read only the review...
...Reading your review of my novel Pedlock & Sons [Oct. 21], I was reminded of the time in 1945 when William Faulkner and I were standing outside Warner Bros, studio waiting for our car, both a little glum since we had been working on the screenplay of Stallion Road. Bill said: "Who's going to star in this?" I said, "A horse." "I mean human." "Ronald Reagan." Bill thought a while and puffed on his Dunhill. "I don't know. Back home we'd run him for public office." "Why?"' Bill thought some more, then said...
...Help, help! First [Oct. 14] you print an extraordinary review of my book...
...exist anymore," he says, and he doesn't seem to regard their loss as any great tragedy. He wrote Billy Budd with a Princeton colleague, Louis Coxe. In 1949, it was produced at an uptown off-Broadway theatre. Two years later a second version opened on Broadway to mixed reviews. The play promptly became a cause. John Mason Brown's notice in the Saturday Review reflected the tone of its admirers: "Those who did not see Billy Budd did their bit to discourage the theatre from doing its best. They turned their backs on courage and distinction...
...excitement began and ended early when Committeewoman Barbara Acker man opened the meeting with a motion to review the decision which has forced the Harvard-Radcliffe Young Democrats to move Carmichael's November 10th speech to Briggs Cage...