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...later used its reprint profits to form a new company that would publish books at random, hence the name Random House. Despite his latter-day public reputation as syndicated humorist and smirking jokester of TV's What's My Line?, Cerf the publisher had a shrewd eye for quality: Random House, now a subsidiary of RCA, helped break America's obscenity barrier by printing James Joyce's Ulysses in 1934, created a wide U.S. audience for such writers as Faulkner, O'Neill, John O'Hara and Sinclair Lewis...
...more money into the economy, but Burns himself knew that it could do so only temporarily without having an inflationary effect. He went to see shrewd, conservative Wilbur Mills, whose word on economic matters is virtually law in the House. Mills agreed to promote an investment-credit bill, should one be needed. Burns also opened communications with John Connally, the Texas Democrat whom Nixon had just made Secretary of the Treasury...
...were a briefcase left on a train. To the writer, the gravest sin is to lack "the capacity for proper despair." He has it. Between the time the play lurches fitfully into motion and the time it explodes raggedly at the end, his expression of that despair-funny, shrewd, somber-holds the stage compellingly...
Rebellion springs from a psychological source as much as from a political stance. Yet an age that has generated millions of rebels has failed to produce anything like adequate discussion of their emotional motives. Now a shrewd novel by a member of the Old Left offers some home thoughts to the vociferous children...
...Jackson, 59, began to toy with the idea of a candidacy last spring, he was rated as having little better than an outside chance for the vice-presidential nomination, and virtually none for No. 1. Since then, the Washington Democrat has moved up remarkably fast. There are still few shrewd politicians of either party who see Jackson as the 1972 Democratic nominee; he is barely visible in the national polls, registering only...