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...about 5 o'clock on Thursday afternoon in August 1996, when a dense gray cloud descended over Route 73, a two-lane road near Geismar, La., cutting visibility to zero and triggering a rear-end collision. As State Trooper Ross Johnson, a fresh-faced, 25-year-old Marine Corps veteran, drove toward the accident, he noted that every car headed his way had headlights on and windshield wipers flapping. When Johnson got out of his patrol car, he suddenly got hit by the heavy smell of ammonia. He ushered the drivers of the two cars out of the cloud...
There is art in The Garden of Eden; there is also evidence of many artifacts. Hemingway began the book after World War II. In 1947 he wrote the critic Maxwell Geismar, "Getting very big but I cut the hell out of it periodically." Just how big became the concern of Scribners Editor Tom Jenks, 35, who got the job of salvaging a 247-page novel out of 1,500 pages of manuscript. "Editing Hemingway was like wrestling with a god," says the amiable Virginian. What Jenks does not say is that the rules of the game require that...
Noyes, who died in 1977, also developed a logo for Mobil with Chermayeff & Geismar Associates. This firm also created the fetching, letterless, four-color octagonal trademark for the Chase Manhattan Bank, probably the first completely abstract logo, whose design, says Chase, is supposed to "convey a sense of dignity and the dynamic purpose of the bank." The versatile and famous CBS eye was developed by Bill Golden, art director at CBS for 19 years. Currently, the leading imagemakers are Lippincott & Margulies, who created the Xerox logo and claim authorship of more than 2,200 others, including Uniroyal, RCA and ChemBank...
...HIGHER ANIMALS: A MARK TWAIN BESTIARY. Edited by Maxwell Geismar. Drawings by Jean-Claude Suarès. 160 pages. Thomas Y. Crowell. $8.95. Fully half a century ago, Robert Benchley protested against the practice of concocting an annual anthology of Mark Twain relics. That season's offering happened to be Moments with Mark Twain, so Benchley wondered whether "we may look for further books in this series in 1923, 1924, 1925, etc., to be entitled Half-Hours with Mark Twain ... Pleasant Week-Ends with Mark Twain, Indian Summer with Mark Twain. " Mutatis mutandis, this year's Twain anthology...
THIS HEIGHTENED awareness of private neurosis alerts her to the general taint and prompts an interesting argument. In a review of Tennessee Williams's play, The Rose Tatoo, Maxwell Geismar--a Marxist critic--deplores Williams's detachment from the mainstream of American literature. Convinced that literature should be a function of politics, any preoccupation with sheer emotion irks him. The "people," he contends, aren't infected. Nin perceives an undercurrent in American life that sucks in more than a peripheral minority--making neurotics less than special. Williams, she responds, has prophesied a cultural illness...