Word: snow
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Also highly flexible is Wesleyan's Center for Advanced Studies, at which such invited fellows as Britain's Author-Scientist C. P. Snow, former White House Aide Richard Goodwin and William Manchester (The Death of a President) get ample stipends (up to $15,000, plus housing) with only one vague appeal to conscience: "They are invited to participate, to an extent consistent with their plans for their own work, in the ongoing work of the university." Snow confined himself to two lectures during his one semester at Middletown. His wife, Pamela Hansford Johnson, who was also a center...
...SNOW WHITE by Donald Barthelme. 180 pages. Atheneum...
...happened to him overnight-as if, blind from birth, he could suddenly see, or, fluent only in Urdu, he abruptly grasped English entire. The result is quite an explosion, a staccato burst of verbal star shells, pinwheel phrases, cherry bombs of Joycean puns and wordplays. Such a book is Snow White, an amusingly refurbished fairy-tale novel of the absurd-as episodic and pointless as a slow-turning kaleidoscope, yet just as strangely affecting...
...Snow White, "a tall dark beauty containing a great many beauty spots," lives in an unnamed city with seven men -Bill, Kevin, Edward, Hubert, Henry, Clem and Dan. When they are not taking showers with Snow White or making love to her, they keep busy washing buildings, carrying money to the vault and tending vats in which they brew Chinese baby food. The men are not dwarfs, but might as well be. Snow White says tartly: "The seven of them only add up to the equivalent of two real men." About all that they have in common, except Snow White...
Finally, there is Prince Charming, a young man named Paul who is much given to writing palinodes in his bath. For her part, Snow White finds him to be more frog than prince. It all winds up when Jane poisons Paul by mistake, after which Bill is tried and executed for vatricide-he let the fire go out under the bubbling cauldrons of Chinese baby food...