From Comedian To Crusader Dick Gregory’s Civil Rights Journey
Dick Gregory rose from poverty in St Louis to Southern Illinois University and a bright career as a comedian. He shifted to civil rights activism, recounting his evolution in The Shadow at Scares Me from Doubleday, a self portrait and social critique. He discusses crime, church roles, police, and systemic injustice while tracing his literary path from earlier works to this fourth book.
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Dick Gregory
St. Louis
Gregory
Southern Illinois University
Chicago
Doubleday
America
Huntley-Brinkley
Whitney Annual Exhibits Varied Mix Across Generations
The 1967 Whitney Annual adds works from 165 artists in 17 states and Europe, including veterans like Georgia O’Keeffe and Willem de Kooning alongside rising figures such as Andy Warhol. It showcases hard edge abstraction, Pop, Op, and kinetic forms with Flood by Helen Frankenthaler and a large Op Art piece by Richard Anuskiewicz. The show emphasizes recent works, mostly created in the past two years, and notes questions about breakthrough ideas.
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New York
Whitney Museum of Art
Ford Foundation
Georgia O’keeffe
Jack Levine
Helen Frankenthaler
Willem de Kooning
Adolph Gottlieb
Josef Albers
Richard Anuskiewicz
Andy Warhol
Holly Solomon
Marilyn Monroe
James Rosenquist
Larry Poons
Roy Lichtenstein
Ellsworth Kelly
Jasper Johns
Robert Indiana
Jim Dine
The Edge reviewed as a nihilistic California novel
A critic calls The Edge a stark first novel set in California where a young man named Ryan avoids responsibility while facing two accidental tragedies. The narrative, surreal and shifting between reality and fantasy, is praised for forceful writing and emotional truth. An unrelated piece notes a Turkish inn in Jerusalem converted to a 450 seat theater amid historic claims.
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Page Stegner
Dial Press
California
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Miles A. Smith
Old Inn Jerusalem
Crossroads by James Mc Conkey
The author drafts an auto novel through 11 chapters written 1960 to 1966 that blend present events with memories from boyhood to World War II and teaching at Cornell. A 45 year old professor in a white colonial house reflects on family, fatherhood, and ordinary life with restrained grace.
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James McConkey
Dutton
McConkey
Cornell University
Europe
Miles A. Smith
Beatrice Straight Plays Madam in Albee Comedy
Beatrice Straight, famed for refinement, stars as a madam in Edward Albee’s Everything in the Garden at Plymouth Theatre with Barbara Bel Geddes and Barry Nelson. She discusses the play’s satire on suburbia, morality and money, and notes Albee’s evolving endings and her hopes for a Broadway anniversary revival.
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New York
Beatrice Straight
Edward Albee
Plymouth
Barbara Bel Geddes
Barry Nelson
The Best of the Best in Science Fiction
Judith Merril curates a 29 story collection from 1955 to 1960 with strong entries by Miller Jr Simak Leiber Sheckley and others while noting omissions by Bradbury Matheson Beaumont Slesar and Gurd. The critic argues the anthology showcases many top writers though it misses some marquee names.
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Judith Merril
Ray Bradbury
Richard Matheson
Charles Beaumont
Henry Slesar
J. G.ard
Cordwainer Smith
Richard M. McKenna
Walter M. Miller Jr
Clifton D. Simak
Fritz Leiber
Robert Sheckley
Isaac
Littered hillside spoils ski area at spring thaw
New York AP reports Littered skis and beverage containers on ski trails irritate skiers and threaten to ruin the slope as fresh snow falls and spring thaw reveals litter, challenging Keep America Beautiful Inc. anti litter efforts.
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New York
America Beautiful Inc
Horse Under Water by Len Deighton
The spy novel follows a British intelligence agent sent to a diving school and Portugal’s coast to locate a sunken World War II submarine. The plot twists reveal heroin aboard the sub and a coveted document of international consequence, framed by Deighton’s brisk, atmospheric prose.
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Len Deighton
Putnam’s
Deighton
Portugal
Dawlish
Sus
Picious
Porkaguens
Miles A. Smith
Podhoretz a Self Made Intellectual and Critic
In this memoir Podhoretz catalogs a Brooklyn Jewish upbringing, academic detours, and a rise to Manhattan literary circles. He defines himself as a professional intellectual and chronicles his shift from professor to critic and editor at Commentary. The narrative blends self portrayal with questions about true literary life beyond an insulated enclave.
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Brooklyn
Manhattan
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Cambridge
Miles A. Smith
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