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Consider the sorry lot of Author Erich Segal (Love Story). Airline stewardesses slip him their apartment keys; eager ladies really believe that love means not having to say you're sorry; TV headliners plead for personal appearances. "I'm going into hiding," the beleaguered bachelor told reporters last week. "I want to be alone. I'm so overexposed it's unbelievable. My apartment is a fishbowl." Segal, 33, a classics professor at Yale, plans to take a leave of absence after this semester to devote himself to "scholarly research." Where? "I can't tell...
...small comings and goings." This wisdom was provided by Herman Raucher, co-scenarist of Anthony Newley's Can Hieronymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe, etc., who now has apparently forsaken fake Fellini for pseudo Salinger. Give him one thing, though, he's the equal of Erich Segal - in art, if not in commerce...
...smaller, less slick publication has also launched an attack on Segal. In a pamphlet entitled "The Truth About Love Story" (an obscure reference to one of Segal's works), two students from San Diego, California, are attempting to demonstrate that the analysis of love presented in Segal's latest work is a fraud...
...Segal, a professor of Classics at Yale, recently published a short monograph on love in the form of a case-study of a Harvard-and-Radcliffe couple...
...contradict the views expressed by Segal, the two are distributing their pamphlet at Harvard and Radcliffe and will be conducting interviews with students during the next few weeks. The data from the interviews will be incorporated in a book called The Basic Haman Issue -an examination of the way people attempt to mask their innate egotism while deluding themselves that they are unselfish, according to co-author Paul Treegarden...