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They will be bound in hand made green Fabriano covers with. Buckram backs, printed on Arche's hand made paper, and boxed. With each copy will go an etching of Professor Copeland done especially for this edition by D. C. Sturges, who made the etching of C. W. Eliot '53, President of the University, emeritus. When Professor Copeland was asked what artist he preferred for the work, he particularly chose Mr. Sturges, because of his ad- miration for his etching of President Eliot...
Frank Page is the upstanding young editor who narrates the novel, an account of the workings of Belles Lettres from its beginnings as the plaything of the rich and cultivated Winifred Buckram to its present as a property of Protean Publications, whose owner, Cyrus Tooling, is less cultivated. His response to the journal's list of 25 important American writers: "Who the f is Harold Brodkey? And where the f is Herman Wouk...
Foreign writers have rumbled across America in buckram and paperback trying to conquer it, to understand it. But Americans themselves now seem to have trouble imagining their country. The terms and arrangements of the American enterprise are changing. The entire American proposition has been built upon the premise of ever expanding opportunity, upon a vision of the future as a territory open-ended and always unfolding, upon ascendant history. "We are the heirs of all time," said Herman Melville. What happens if the future seems to be closing down, to be darkening? If nature, first an enemy to be subdued...
...from Johnson during his presidency, diaries of every minute of those five years-including notations about naps and meals -staff memos by the tens of thousands, tons of task-force reports and Cabinet studies, and millions of feet of microfilmed records of Government agencies. Stored in red buckram boxes embossed with the presidential seal, they will fill four floors of archives. But the 43,000 boxes will represent only the surface; in addition, there are nearly 1,000,000 photographs of Johnson's official and family activities, reel after reel of color movie film, and an oral-history section...
...acting, too, is generally skillful, but occasionally overdone. Edward Zang's cynical Scandal is always restrained yet his open disdain for the slithery lawyer Buckram (Bernard Wurger) is still as funny as anything in the show. Wurger himself smoothly handles a three minute conversation from a blackhatted Puritan lawyer to a shyly drunk self-acknowledged stud. Gerald McGonagill as the addled astrologer Foresight, when calm, is also entertaining...