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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Library in the past few days, I found that Physicist's Weekly doesn't even make the list of publications appealing to ridiculously narrow audiences. Certainly The Accountant's Digest appeals to a much smaller and more select audience. So do The Accountant's Journal, Accounting Review, and Accounting Trends and Techniques...
...Kurt Waldheim, 68, recently barred from entering the U.S. on suspicion of abetting Nazi crimes, ordered a state prosecutor to file suit for slander / against Edgar Bronfman, president of the World Jewish Congress, for claiming that Waldheim had been "part and parcel" of the Nazi machine. Still awaiting final review of his case, although he was given the death penalty in absentia, is Karl Linnas, 67, the first naturalized American to be stripped of his citizenship and turned over to Soviet authorities for Nazi crimes. More will doubtless follow. The cases of nearly 30 other U.S. immigrants suspected of having...
...accessible to the humblest . . . book reviewer as I am to my immediate entourage." That is how Lord Copper, proprietor of the London Daily Beast, saw the hierarchy of the press in Evelyn Waugh's Scoop. A half-century later, Charles Simmons may have trouble getting past the lowliest editorial assistant at the New York Times Book Review, where he spent 33 years as an editor. His latest novel, which caused a few clucks when it was excerpted pseudonymously in the Nation and the New Republic, is a farce about office politics at a Manhattan literary magazine...
...conferences (Norman Mailer's Ancient Evenings is presented as "the Old Testament written by Mel Brooks, the 'Book of the Dead' by Henry Miller, the Iliad by Woody Allen, the head of Nefertiti by Red Grooms"), an intraoffice scandal about an aging office boy who enriches himself by selling review copies as well as slots on the best-seller list, and a Shakespeare hoax that brings down the magazine's lowbrow chief, Newbold Press. Simmons demonstrates his versatility by composing nine "lost" sonnets by the Bard...
...central theme Duehay said he concerns himself with is the quality of neighborhood life. He said he works carefully with "the local municipal environmental review, to ensure that new development does not have an adverse reaction," Duehay said...