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...Other second-hand ideas which appear in this issue include the foibles of television and 3-D movies, the "in 25 words or less" contest, the detective story, the mysterious mixup, and the shock ending in which someone suddenly discovers that an imaginary situation has become real. Indeed, the Lampoon is present testimony to the theory that all the stories ever written have been derived from a set of 35 basic plots...
Standing in a Manhattan bar one night last spring, Newsman Carey Wilber watched, with mounting amazement, the unfolding of a TV drama. When it was over, Wilber said to the bartender: "I can write stuff as good as that." The next day he bought a second-hand book entitled The Television Program. He read it on his way to Toronto, where he was working as a reporter on the Globe and Mail. Then he wrote a 30-minute TV script which was promptly bought by Armstrong Circle Theater. Last week another Wilber play, The Fire Below and the Devil Above...
...piece of cowhide and bury it. A storekeeper who has dealt with them for years gives this comprehensive list of the things they buy: cotton cloth for shirts, plow points, dye, thread, needles, old automobile tires to be cut into sandals, sugar, chocolate, rice, macaroni, aspirin, second-hand sewing machines...
...Soon a swarm of handout seekers buzzed around him, ten visitors a day from outlying districts, "a thousand letters a day from people all over France, Italy, Switzerland and Belgium." The abbé lit out for Paris, partly to escape, partly to pick up his fat check and two second-hand Citroens for 1,500,000 francs...
Intellectually, today's young people already seem a bit stodgy. Their adventures of the mind are apt to be mild and safe, and their literature too often runs to querulous and self-protective introspection, or voices a pale, orthodox liberalism that seems more second-hand than second nature. On the whole, the young writer today is a better craftsman than the beginner of the '205. Novelists like Truman Capote, William Styron and Frederick Buechner are precocious technicians, but their books have the air of suspecting that life is long on treachery, short on rewards. What some critics took...