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Russell's own boyhood ambition to be Governor of Louisiana, in the fashion of his family, has gradually been buried in Senate seniority, which is now too valuable to surrender. Russell seems less regretful every year. "I have a fond and warm recollection of my father," he says. "but I have my job to do, and for a long time now I have been working for Russell Long, not Huey Long...
David Stacton, 37, is a Nevadan who wears cowboy boots, is fond of both Zen and bourbon, and is as nearly unknown as it is possible for a writer to be who has written, and received critical praise for, 13 novels (all have been published in England, five in the US.). His books, most of which have historical themes, are masses of epigrams marinated in a stinging mixture of metaphysics and blood. Mostly they resemble themselves, but something similar might have been the result if the Due de la Rochefoucauld had written novels with plots suggested by Jack London. Stacton...
Richard Condon is also technically a comic novelist (although purists fond of wedging hyphens between split hairs might call him a serio-comic or even a calamito-comic novelist). He is the author of The Manchurian Candidate, a comic eruption that simply as comedy ranks with the best funny novels done recently in the U.S.-that is, with Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita, Richard Bissell's 7½ Cents and Peter De Vries's Comfort Me with Apples. But Condon is something more. He is a comedian who throws his custard pies in black anger, with intent...
...sexes in athletics seems to go too far. The Greeks, who were extremely wise in many respects, were quite rigid on this point. Any woman who even watched the Olympic Games was automatically executed. When the Romans reversed that edict, women apparently became great sports fans and were fond of spectacles such as gladiator fights and chariot races. The illusion of a tender sex has been completely shattered in modern times by the blossoming of female athletes in numerous sports. But up to this time, with the minor exceptions of mixed doubles in tennis and tiddlywinks, women have generally been...
...Soviet audiences were especially fond of Dixieland and swing numbers, but many wanted to hear more modern jazz. "They asked why I hadn't brought along Miles Davis, Thelonius Monk, or some 'progressive' jazz man," Goodman said...