Word: reviewable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Polynesian paradise of Tahiti, le grand tourist really let go. Aboard a navy cutter in Papeete Bay, De Gaulle perched his spectacles on his ample nose as outrigger canoes bearing lovely Polynesian girls passed in review. At a tamaaraa, the traditional Tahitian feast, the general sampled all the specialties: spinach with pork from earthen ovens, breadfruit, cooked bananas in coconut cream sauce. Everywhere, he plunged with a balance of glee and gravity into the smiling crowds shaking hands, and more than once was draped with leis and bussed by dusky native beauties in return...
...Hearst, Jack Howard, Jock Whitney-will be given space to reply if they disagree with an editorial. "It should make for a pretty lively page," says Conniff. Leslie Gould from the Journal-American will boss the financial page; Maurice Dolbier from the Trib and John Barkham from the Saturday Review will review books; the Trib's Walter Terry, dance; John Gruen and Emily Genauer, art; Miles Kastendieck, William Bender and Alan Rich, music. The Sunday paper, too, will carry features from the Trib: New York magazine, edited by Clay Felker; and Book Week, under Theodore Solotaroff...
...will probably be in the neighborhood of $6,000,000. Last year the society's 360 "reading rooms" sold about $4,000,000 worth of materials. In addition to books and pamphlets, the society publishes a monthly magazine called American Opinion, a monthly newsletter and a weekly Review of the News. It runs a speaker's bureau that has a roster of 250 people. Its taped 15-minute broadcast, The John Birch Report, is used by 175 radio stations...
Arch & Tricky. Neither present Times readers nor former Trib readers are likely to disagree, since Kerr is the most thoughtful of the daily reviewers. Never sidetracked by extraneous details, he writes a highly structured review. His leads are often small gems of summation. "After the Fall" he began, "resembles a confessional which Arthur Miller enters as a penitent and from which he emerges as the priest. It is a tricky quick change, sometimes an almost imperceptible one; but it constitutes neither an especially attractive nor especially persuasive performance...
...that I was desperately, desperately, desperately in love with acting, but it was like a woman in love with a man she's afraid of-she'll build such defenses. So instead of acting I painted, I studied languages, I studied music, I worked for the Paris Review...