Word: via
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...essentially a monologist, and his effect depends not so much on the credibility of his characters or incidents as on the incredibility of his language. He is a not-so-ancient mariner of kitsch, whose voyages seem mostly to have been out of the sovereign state of innocence via the borscht circuit. He re-enacts them repeatedly under assumed names in this, his first collection, emerging from a Jewish childhood on Manhattan's Lower East Side, mournful yet wide-eyed, trying to gain his fortune and lose his virginity without missing a single opening...
...sponsorship. This trend. by concentrating experience in social science research within the Defense Department, serves to insure that the Defense Department will continue to be the only organization able to use the new applications which its social science programs develop. Alker sees ARPA's move into basic methodological research via the Cambridge Project as the most monopolistic development of all in this regard. In computer technology and the behavioral sciences, the technology contains imperatives of its own, and these are already making obsolete the traditional safeguards of academic openness to which the Cambridge Project so carefully adheres...
...Manhattan's First National City Bank spent $7,500 renovating his Paris flat, but still has to budget $800 a year for electrical repairs. The chief of operations for a U.S. oil company was dismayed to find the plumbing so erratic in his villa on Rome's Via Appia Antica that for a time he stocked bottled water for guests to wash in. When William Wyman, vice president of Booz, Allen & Hamilton, rented an apartment in Düsseldorf, he and his wife discovered that the rent was only the beginning of their housing costs. "Not only...
Codified Concierges. But Gramont, a French count by birth and a Pulitzer prizewinning journalist by trade (via Yale and the New York Herald Tribune), is really offering a well-packaged literary supermarket. His hope, clearly, is that readers in need of predigested fact and opinion should search no farther. Furnished with a vast array of knowledge-much of it the result of his French secondary-school education -he includes generous helpings of statistics, history, philosophy and lore...
Died. Guy Rowe, 75, U.S. artist whose intensely realistic portraits (with the signature "Giro") graced more than 40 TIME covers; of cancer; in Huntington, N.Y. Rowe discovered his talent via a vaudeville act in which he drew chalk portraits of well-known people; he saved enough money for art school, became a New York commerical artist, and in 1943 won his first TIME commission. The association was interrupted from 1945 to 1949 while he worked on 32 highly acclaimed illustrations to Biblical characters for the book In Our Image: Character Studies from the Old Testament. Then he went back...