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...seven children. Last week Wheeler-Dealer Mailer brought off the coup of his career: a record $1 million from Little Brown for a proposed saga about "a family from ancient history to future history" which will end aboard a spaceship. Swearing off such distractions as TV appearances and journalistic ephemera, Mailer has retired to his Stockbridge, Mass., house to write the novel over the next few years. Commenting on the largest known sum paid for a work of fiction, New York Publisher Roger Straus said: "It's crazy...
...conductor; Angel, $5.98). A vocal record to cherish, with De los Angeles, now 49, as ear-ravishing as ever. By the standard of the classic Madeline Grey Auvergne recording (1930), this version is a shade operatic, but in its own opulent way nonetheless irresistible. The Chausson, delicately contrasting the ephemera of love with the eternity of the sea, is a pre-Impressionistic gem, hauntingly burnished by De los Angeles, rapturously accompanied by Conductor Jacquillat...
...Spanish named California after a mythical medieval paradise, an island in the far West to which the noblest knights would go when they died. For generations since, California has been a glittering piece of ephemera on the western slopes of the farthest mountains. It has been a symbol for all that American society has hoped for and sought after. Californians themselves have been intrigued by the imaginative position of the place in American life. In Americans and the California Dream Kevin Starr tries to study the imaginative life of California in America. Starr, a Californian himself, spent the last five...
...which ownnd culture owned the talismans of culture. No prodigal child of our epoch will reminisce about the wood-panelled studies where idle afternoons were spent browsing through novels. In my own impoverished library, which comprises less than a thousand books, I have isolated the older works from those ephemera which are the luggage of all students. There is a volume of Swedenborg, issued in 1868, still damp, as if it had been left on some porch during a summer storm, and warped as the wooden floor of the Maine antique shop where I bought it; a first edition...
...begun by a team under Columbia's George Fischer, but much remains to be done, and the library still has a man spending part of one day each week working on the archives. The open section is now divided into three units: the Soviet Correspondence, the Works, and the Ephemera. Much of the collection consists of letters--for example, a letter from Lenin to Trotsky dated December 13, 1918, marked "Urgent--Top Secret." The letter deals with military affairs. In addition to the letters and the manuscripts of many of his books, there are also clippings from dozens of newspapers...