Word: styron
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Chief organizer of the protest was Folk Singer Joan Baez, who sent a letter to 350 onetime activists and celebrities asking them to sign the ad. Among the 84 who did: Daniel Berrigan, Cesar Chavez, Allen Ginsberg, I.F. Stone, William Styron. Others, however, turned down Baez on the grounds that they suspected the accuracy of the reporting out of Viet Nam or that they still could not forgive the U.S. for its role in the war. Jane Fonda would not sign even after a personal appeal from Baez. William Kunstler, perennial attorney for underdog litigants reportedly explained his refusal...
SOPHIE'S CHOICE by William Styron; Random House; 515 pages...
...quarter of the year-round population (8,000) organized a No Mac committee, with support from summer visitors, including Singers James Taylor and Carry Simon, Actresses Mia Farrow and Ruth Gordon, Authors John Updike and William Styron. Although the island has a Dairy Queen and several pizza joints, Henry Beetle Hough, editor of the Vineyard Gazette, denounced McDonald's as "a symbol of the asphalt-and-chrome culture." Warned Hough: "Its coming means that we will have succumbed at last to the megalopolis which we have dreaded." Last week the Vineyard Haven health board refused to issue a septic...
Executives at all three commercial TV networks immediately began looking for ways to cash in on the new interest in black history. Paul Monash, a CBS vice president, began dickering with Author William Styron for the TV rights to his 1967-68 bestseller, The Confessions of Nat Turner. Said Monash: "Part of Roots' brilliance was in the programming. ABC caused an explosion by compressing the presentation so that the drama had built-in impact. I never liked the format of one hour a week, as in Rich Man, Poor Man. Waiting a week dispels interest; waiting a day heightens interest...
...accurate is television's Roots as history? Novelist William Styron (The Confessions of Nat Turner) is harsher than most critics. Roots, he says, "is dishonest tripe. It took a crude mass-culture approach. It shows how dismally ignorant blacks and whites still are about slavery." As a number of critics have noted, there were, to start with, some errors of setting. Styron objects that "counties in Virginia, North Carolina and Tennessee which are as flat as Ping Pong paddles look as if they were shot on a back set used for horse operas with a background...