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Felker is an idea editor, not a pencil editor. He has had remarkably accurate antennae for coming fashions -and a knack for catchy headlines that are often better than the articles and make each fad seem momentous. The list of writers for whom he has provided a springboard is also impressive. As features editor of Esquire from 1957 to 1962, he helped steer Norman Mailer into reportage and published some of the first so-called New Jourrialists, most notably Tom Wolfe. On the old New York Herald Tribune, where he edited the Sunday magazine that was to be reincarnated...
...believe that sheer insight will stimulate women to effect a complete change, to revitalize all their relationships and become more assertive. She tends to limit her commentary to recapitulations of the sufficiently eloquent statements her respondents offer, where she could use their explication of pervasive sexual problems as a springboard to solutions. Such annoying pretension toward analysis hardly justifies Hite's designation as the author of this study. Ultimately, it is not Hite but the collected quotes which make this book remarkable, worthwhile and--at least from a female perspective--authentic reading...
...year that the union had initially demanded, and the new holidays will have to be sandwiched between two working days, rather than added to weekends or existing holidays. But when Detroit and the union next wrangle in 1979, the U.A.W. could use its 1976 Ford contract as a springboard for leaping closer to a real four-day week...
...David a rare treasure coyly shielded by a sprig of ivy, idling on an escalator headed for corporate influence, medical excellence or academic fame. In other words, power. And many Radcliffe women want that power, Spearheading achievement in their secondary schools, these women nosed in on Harvard, their springboard to success...
...Francisco State College Senate tells the conference, "This will give us the proper platform to go back and build and build and build." Jim Garrison, NSCAR's Michigan organizer, thinks the people have come here for "an action program," and that the march will be a "springboard" for future action. He's been an activist for seven years, and like Greg Johnson, a cottony-voiced black who sees this as "an experience oriented, people movement," he worked in the anti-war movement with the National Peace Action Coalition (NPAC), an SWP dominated group. NSCAR's staff, in fact, is largely...