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...head of the line. From the company that gave you Beach Blanket Bingo and I Was a Teen Age Werewolf will soon come?Wuthering Heights. "We were among the first to get into the youth-rebellion market," says Samuel Arkoff, A.I.P. chairman. "But we began to sense that that vein was pretty well mined. We felt there was going to be an abrupt shift to love stories...
What gives Nolen's book an unmistakable ring of truth is his unsparing criticism of himself. He offers no excuses as he tells how he lost his temper with a patient who refused to let him cut into a vein for a transfusion; he assumes full responsibility for an operation that resulted in the death of another. Nor does he hide his pride in his growing proficiency. "A surgeon needs conceit," he says. "He needs it to sustain him in trying moments when he's battered by the doubts and uncertainties that are part of the practice...
...events leading to his own downfall in 1964. But he does offer some thoughts about life inside his vast country. "If you try to control your artists too tightly, there will be no clashing of opinions, consequently no criticism, and consequently no truth," he says. In a similar vein, he says of the country's stifling travel restrictions: "Why should we build a good life and then keep our borders bolted with seven locks...
...large kitchen-dining-living-bedroom that looks out through windows over a tidal inlet of Kachemak Bay to the village of Homer and the bluffs above the town. A big, black, Franklin stove warms the cabin, burning lumps of soft coal that are washed from an exposed vein in the cliffs on the other side of the inlet and carried by the waves to the beach by the cabin. Their dinner table is a huge telephone cable spool, sanded, stained and polished to a rich shine; a bunch of dried wildflowers and some fresh ginger hangs from a rafter; neatly...
...what does she stand for? What has she done to be taken seriously or worthy of our time? Do you mean to suggest that she is a representative of the Washington wives? God bless this country and Washington! Do you suggest that she provides the badly needed lighter vein for the whole nation? If so, you should ask the editor of Mad to handle...