Word: strause
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...below. That was the motif of his last book, Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers (1970). It also supplies the comedy of manners for his new one, The Painted Word, which appeared in Harper's April issue and has now been published in hard cover by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. The book was meant to be a scathing indictment of modern art in general and of American painting and its social milieu in particular. Instead, it emerges as a curious document of frustration: the dandy as Archie Bunker...
...TWENTIES by EDMUND WILSON 557 pages. Farrar, Straus & Giroux...
...first time since 1931, Adams House entered the finals in intramural basketball last night at the IAB. And for the first time ever, if came away with the title, a 58-40 pasting of defending Straus Cup champion Lowell House...
...delightful piano trios by Mozart; David Garlock, piano, Nancy Zufall, violin, and Joseph Straus, cello; Dunster Library...
...with Stanley Rinehart (son of Mystery Writer Mary Roberts Rinehart) to found one of the most successful publishing houses of the era. Among their bestsellers: Hervey Allen's huge 1933 novel Anthony Adverse, which sold over 2 million hard-cover copies. After World War II, Farrar joined Roger Straus Jr. to form a new firm that became Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Throughout his career, Farrar remained committed to popular literature. "I like a good story," he once said, "and I'm bored by a dull, pretentious book, no matter what scholarly cloak it wears...