Word: strause
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lesson forgotten by many Americans but remembered by the Germans and Japanese: a dedication to quality is bound to pay off. With the returns now . in, it is clear that the star literary performer of 1987 was not an individual but the publishing house of Farrar, Straus & Giroux, a firm that has been publishing the best in fiction and nonfiction for more than 40 years...
Editor in Chief Roger Straus Jr. and his closely knit family of editors and writers have had quite a year. Tom Wolfe's The Bonfire of the Vanities is currently No. 1 on the best-seller lists. Scott Turow's Presumed Innocent, a summer smash, is No. 3. Earlier in the year Walker Percy's The Thanatos Syndrome and Philip Roth's The Counterlife held positions on the lists. The National Book Critics Circle named The Counterlife the best novel of 1987. In addition, the N.B.C.C. award for poetry went to C.K. Williams for Flesh and Blood, and another Farrar...
While some dorms which can field a five-man team may prefer more traditional basketball, they agree that three-man hoop does have its advantages. "We would prefer playing five-man full court, but that's only because we have five guys," says Wen Shen '91, a Straus resident. "But in the end, the three-man league is probably better...
...Light says he thinks that problem could easily be alleviated. He is currently looking into increasing publicity for the freshman championship. "The houses have the Straus Cup, but right now the freshmen just have the overall championship," he says...
...jungle also occupies William Steig, who, at 80, has found the source of eternal juvenilia. The proof is in his 21st children's book, The Zabajaba Jungle (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $13.95). The author-illustrator enters the imagination of Leonard, a small rover who cuts his way through underbrush populated with beaky toucans and blue-bottomed mandrills. After a series of hilarious escapades, the boy encounters the most unexpected creatures of all: his mother and father. They look relieved to see him, and why not? What are young explorers for except to rescue grownups...