First Person Singular Essays For The Sixties
A collection edited by Herbert Gold gathers 16 American writers to comment on 1960s life from Khrushchev and Castro to race, labor and culture. Baldwin, Vidal, Bellow, McCarthy, Miller and others offer sharp essays on politics, society, and America’s evolving values.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Khrushchev
Castro
Cuba
Barry Goldwater
Dial Press
Herbert Gold
Gold
James Baldwin
Baldwin
Fifth Avenue Uptown
Harlem
East River
America
Gore Vidal
Sen. Goldwater
Washington
Saul Bellow
United Nations
Hollywood
Harvey Swados
Mary McCarthy
Europe
Warren Miller
Arthur Miller
William Stryon
Mrs. Ra
Book and play bestseller list roundup
A listing of notable titles includes The Best Sellers books and The Shoes of the Fisherman and The Glass Blowers. Also named are Grandmother and the Priests and The Roof Beam Carpenter along with introductions and travel works by Salinger McKenna Steinbeck and Baldwin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West
du Maurier
Card
Across The Counter Memoirs Of A Woman Of Pleasure
A note on John Cleland’s memoirs introduces Frances Hill known as Fanny, emerging from obscurity after 214 years. Peter Quennell’s introduction frames the work published by Putnam in 319 pages priced at $6. The tone suggests the subject’s lack of embarrassment as she steps into the spotlight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Cleland
Peter Quennell
Putnam
Frances Hill
Fanny
Miss _ Hill
Fanny Hill
Cleland
Henry Miller
D. H. Lawrence
Lady Chatterley
Quennell
OUR Times
John XXIII
Paulist Press
Naples
Morris West
Apollo Editions
Peter Judd
Dell
John Brooks
Mozart Dominates Tanglewood Opening With Serkin
Boston Symphony Orchestra led by Erich Leinsdorf opens the Berkshire Festival at Tanglewood with Mozart works and Rudolph Serkin as soloist. The Jupiter Symphony closes a concert that drew 6000 plus listeners amid enthusiastic reviews and extended ovations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lenox
Mass
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Erich Leinsdorf
Tanglewood Music Center
Leinsdorf
America
Burgin
Monteux
Munch
Ormandy
New York
Ruy Serkin
Mozart
Rudolph Serkin
Mille
Jeanhomme
Serkin
Tanglewood
Remarkable Talent A HIGH NEW HOUSE
Book review piece surveys two works and a long critical discussion. It praises Thomas Williams's eight story collection for psychological depth and war between violence and gentleness. It contrasts Fanny Hill with modern fiction noting its pornographic nature yet historical value and calls Cleland's work dull beyond curiosity.
Tudor Portraits by Hester W Chapman reviewed
A two portrait study in Tudor England by Hester W Chapman from Little Brown at $4.75. The first portrait, Henry Howard Earl of Surrey, blends poetic innovation with courtly peril ending in execution under Henry VIII. The second, Lady Katherine Grey, continues Chapman's exploration of tragic Tudor sisters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hester W. Chapman
Little Brown
Miss Chapman
England
Henry Howard
Earl of
Surrey
Henry VIII
Katherine Grey
Chapman
Jane Grey
Katherine
Rural aid to Pakistan through MSU and Ford Foundation program
A pilot cooperative agriculture and rural development program links the Government, Michigan State University of Pakistan, and Ford Foundation. The East Pakistan Academy for Rural Development at Comilla hosts MSU resident advisers to train local leaders and conduct rural development research.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
East Lansing
Mich
Southeast Asia
Michigan State University of Pakistan
Ford Foundation
East Pakistan Academy For Rural Development
Comilla
MSU
The Road to Hudders Field A World Bank Tour
James Morris guides readers through the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development in a lively travelogue. He profiles five regions Ethiopia Thailand Southern Italy Colombia and the Indus Basin and blends history religion geography and ethnography with witty commentary. The book argues the Bank aids development while remaining cautious about long term impacts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
World Bank
International Bank For Reconstruction and Development
Bretton Woods
Morris
England
Ethiopia
Thailand
Italy
Colombia
Indus Basin
India
Pakistan
Paperbacks flood shelves with affordable titles in brief notes
A compact roundup announces new paperback editions across fiction, biography, history, and current affairs. Highlights include Philip Roth’s Goodbye Columbus and Letting Go, Elizabeth Madox Roberts The Time of Man, and Barbara Tuchman works The Guns of August and The Zimmermann Telegram.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alice
Columbus
Bantam Books
Elizabeth Madox Roberts
Viking Compass Books
Clare Leighton
Robert Penn Warren
Randall Jarrell
Doubleday Anchor
Guggenheim Museum Impression In New York
Martha Montgomery describes a first trip to New York praising the Guggenheim Museum. She admires its circular ramp design that guides viewing, minimizes distraction, and allows gradual discovery of favorite and newly found artworks. The piece highlights the building’s mass and surrounding context.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Guggenheim Art Museum
Martha Montgomery
Blithe Spirit musical to reunite Lillie and Coward on Broadway
Bea Lillie and Noel Coward reunite for next season on Broadway in a musical version of Blithe Spirit. Contracts are drawn, with Coward directing. Hugh Martin and Timothy Gray will score the show.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Bea Lillie
Noel Coward
Miss Lillie
Noel
Coward
Hugh Martin
Timothy Gray
Bookmobile Schedule for High Point Library Week
The High Point Public Library releases its bookmobile routes for July 8 to 12. Each weekday lists multiple stops with times at sites including College Village Shopping Center Emery Road Hillcrest Rotary Ridgecrest and more.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
High Point Public Library
College Village
Council
Gatewood
Emery Road
Hillcrest
Overbrook
Emerywood
Hedrick
Ashe
English Street
Oakwood
Rotary
Ridgecrest
Willard Street
Gordon Street
Elwood Street
Wendell Street
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Carpenters and Seymour
Salinger
McKenna
Charley
Steinbeck
Hopper
Brough
Russia
Hope
Hudson
James Ramsey Ullman
South Seas Islands
South Pacific
Rudolf Serkin
Certo
Thomas Williams
Ated
Iowa
Paris
Williams
Peo
Quo
Ted
Tleness
Liverpool
London
Ralph Thomson
William Targ
Margaret Fuller
Perry Miller
Miller
Tudor
Elizabeth I
Huddersfield
You
Philip Roth
Dell Laurel
Kenneth Roberts
Lydia Bailey
Haiti
Tripoli
Northwest Passage
Rogers’ Rangers
Fawcett Crest Books
Sigmund Freud
Ernest Jones
Lionel Thrilling
Steven Marcus
D. W. Brogan
Abraham Lincoln
First Pub
Schocken Books
Franz Kafka
Kafka
Max Brod
Cardinal Wolsey
Wolsey
George Cavendish
Sir Thomas More
More
William Roper
Yale University Press
William How
Doubleday
George Steindorff
Keith Seele
Egypt
University of Chicago Phoenix
W. H. Lewis
Duc du Maine
Louis XIV
Benedetto Grace
Harbinger Books
Barbara Tuchman
Merman Telegram
Delta Books
Nw Yorker
Economica Books
Pierre Vidal- Naquet
Penguin Books
France
Algeria
Maurice Dolbier
Kennedy
Carr
Westwood
Otteray
Rockspring Road
Eaton Place
Brantley Circle
W. Farriss
W. Springfield
Dane
Wynnewood
Rockford Road
Ragan
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