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...legal points and statistics are attributed to private conversations, but the word "motherfucker" gets the lengthy note. "For an interesting discussion of the psychological implications of the expression 'motherfucker' (and comparable insults in sixty-six languages) see Edgar A. Gregerson, "Sexual Linguistics," Annals New York Academy of Science. Vol 327 (Language, Sex, and Gender...
Mann-Knopf (2 vol. $6). "An unassuming young man was traveling, in midsummer, from his native city of Hamburg to Davos-Platz in the Canton of the Grisons, on a three weeks' visit." Soon after his arrival, he perceives that his cigars have a flat taste. Before his three weeks are over, he has a bad cold. Before his return to Hamburg, to a world at war, he has spent seven years in a mortal fairyland...
Sixty years ago this week, two young Yale graduates, Henry Luce and Briton Hadden, were about to close the third issue of their new magazine, TIME. It must have been difficult to concentrate on the job at hand because the first returns trickling in from Vol. 1 No. 1 were not all that promising. About 2,500 of the first 5,000 newsstand copies, priced at 15?, had gone unsold. One of the other problems was that Roy Larsen, TIME'S first circulation manager, who was to play a role second only to Luce's in the development...
...asks Vol, 'human affection part of the substructure or of the superstructure...
...Diary, vol. 4, by Virginia Woolf...