Word: sums
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...collections of the sort of Contemporaries have any value at all--and Edmund Wilson, best among many, has proved that hey emphatically do--it must be a value different from and greater than the sum of the worth of the individual pieces. Wilson's collections of literary journalism (The American Earthquake, A Literary Chronicle), for example, have real worth in the anthology form; they are more than bound volumes of old New Republics and New Yorkers. Kazin's occasional pieces, I fear, will never lend themselves to incorporation in new books for new times...
Colored Flood. Many Britons are uneasy at this reversal of traditional Commonwealth policy. As a report by the Church of Scotland put it, the law reduces that sense of "belonging with which any man in any Commonwealth land or language could say, 'Civis Britannicus sum.' " Though the act applies to all Commonwealth countries, white and black, everyone acknowledges that it is intended to discriminate against colored immigrants. But there was little protest in Britain last week, even from M.P.s and newspaper editors who had argued against the bill when it was introduced last November in Parliament. The silence...
Last week the nation's first full-scale experiment in pay TV got under way over station WHCT in Hartford, Conn. Fee-vee is potentially television at its best. In theory, the viewer pays a nominal sum for first-run movies, live Broadway plays, sports events, opera, ballet-all uninterrupted by commercials...
...belongs to huge injections of cash and advice from abroad. Start of the money flow came even before Franco agreed to let the U.S. build air and naval bases on Spanish soil; in a decade the U.S. pumped $503 million into Spain in military aid alone. An even greater sum from abroad has gone to modernize the Spanish economy and implement the 1959 stabilization plan after Spain's disastrous inflation. The plan worked. The soaring prices leveled off; investors regained confidence; gold and dollar reserves soared from virtually zero in 1959 to a whopping $1.1 billion today...
Letting Go, by Philip Roth. The talented satirist of Goodbye, Columbus has produced a long novel on the troubles of the university young; page by page, it is a delight of flawless dialogue and sour wit, but taken in sum it is another solemn novel about a young man lured by the sirens of Meaninglessness...