Word: witnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...BOWDLER'S LEGACY: A HISTORY OF EXPURGATED BOOKS IN ENGLAND AND AMERICA, by Noel Perrin. Examining the literary atrocities of squeamish expurgators, the author has created a brilliant little work of cultural history full of wit and learning...
...only a dim memory; older blacks who well remember the controversies that surrounded the man for most of his life; and three of DuBois's relatives-his cousin, granddaughter, and grandson-to whom he, so aristocratic and impervious to outsiders, was warm and loving and full of wit. Others, black and white, who did not know DuBois personally, knew that they were indebted to him, and so come to Great Barrington to repay a portion of that debt...
...SPOOK WHO SAT BY THE DOOR by Sam Greenlee. 248 pages. Baron. $4.95. A CIA "house nigger" drops out to train black teen-agers as "Freedom Fighters." A schizophrenic first novel by a young black, the book blends James Bond parody with wit and rage...
...YEAR OF THE PEOPLE by Eugene J. McCarthy. 323 pages. Doub/eday. $6.95. Though ostensibly about what happened, McCarthy's book is really about the man, his charm, his wit, his occasional smugness, above all his poetic third eye on himself and his surroundings. An unwitting reminder of the 1968 paradox that those seeking cleaner, simpler political truths chose as hero the most complex politician in the nation...
AMBASSADOR'S JOURNAL by John Kenneth Galbraith. 656 pages. Houghton Mifflin. $10. The dreary daily round in New Delhi (1961-63) greatly brightened by dashes of wit, wisdom and sheer vanity. (Reviewed in TIME...