Word: alterity
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Salinger fans have filled the resultant vacuum with splendid imagination. The author apparently listens now and then behind his locked door, because in Seymour, an Introduction, his fictional alter ego refers to "poignant get-well-soon notes from old readers of mine who have somewhere picked up the bogus information that I spend six months of the year in a Buddhist monastery and the other six in a mental institution." One source of bogus information is the author himself; in the jacket blurb for Franny and Zooey, which he wrote himself, he says with coy fraudulence that "I live...
...workers and has plants and laboratories in nine countries, it still has no table of organization-except, says Roy Ash, "in our heads." And there are no corporate standing committees, since "committees lead to agendas and agendas lead to more committees." Roy Ash's promotion will not essentially alter his relationship to Chairman Thornton, who remains Litton's chief executive officer. But as president. Ash will be able to relieve Thornton of many of the chores of top-level negotiations. Ash need not feel embarrassed, as Thornton might, in negotiating defense deals going through Thornton...
Century's Echo. The new poems do not alter the shape of Graves's work, but the appearance of the new collection may help speed the change in critical attitude toward the poet. It is not likely that Graves will ever be ranked with Yeats, Eliot, Pound, Auden and Thomas-poets whom he once declared, with ringing wrongheadedness, to be unworthy of their idolaters. By current critical consensus, his title to the position just below these five is firm, but "below" is not really the word; it is "apart...
...plane's two stewardesses edged through the door followed closely by two gunmen. The elder of the two pistol toters, a wiry, balding man, held his .38 against the head of Stewardess Lois Carnagey and announced to the pilot: "We are going to take this plane to Cuba. Alter your course 45° to the south...
Rather than wage their campaign on major national problems, Brandt and the Socialists have stressed minor domestic welfare reforms, such as in air pollution, and have warned that a vote for "Der Alter" may be a vote for Franz Josef Strauss, the Christian Democrat's controversial Defense Minister, should Adenauer die in office...