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...each to attend his National Committee for Monetary Reform Conference. The people who attend the three-to five-day conclaves are primarily successful businessmen, doctors and attorneys. They are seeking advice on beating inflation and place great emphasis on personal contact with their investment guru. Explains Economist Eliot Janeway, who runs his own seminars: "People go for the same reason that they go to church instead of staying home and reading Scriptures. They like to hear the sermon." Speakers like Ruff and Rukeyser are paid as much as $10,000 for each appearance, but that is only part...
Singer is not the only contemporary "serious" writer to have sought a small audience. Novelists and poets like John Updike, Randall Jarrell, Alison Lurie, John Gardner, Elizabeth Janeway and Ursula Le Guin have produced exemplary children's books. Of course, scholars and artists are not new to the libraries of kid lit. A generation ago, Essayist E.B. White composed his classics Stuart Little and Charlotte's Web, and Humorist James Thurber wrote The Thirteen Clocks, just as, a decade before, Oxford Don J.R.R. Tolkien had written The Hobbit, and before him, another Oxonian, Lewis Carroll, had produced...
...Szell's brother, who, as the movie begins, is incinerated in an auto accident. Since Szell understandably does not trust any of his couriers, he must now come to the U.S. and get the diamonds himself. The couriers are tough, well-tailored guys like Scylla (Roy Scheider) and Janeway (William Devane), who may at any time be working for Szell, the U.S. Government, themselves, or any combination thereof...
...years?or even a couple of years?ago. America has not entirely repealed the Code of Hammurabi (woman as male property), but enough U.S. women have so deliberately taken possession of their lives that the event is spiritually equivalent to the discovery of a new continent. Says Critic Elizabeth Janeway: "The sky above us lifts, the light pours in. No maps exist for tins enlarged world. We must make them as we explore...
...with Jose Feliciano ($14,500), an ivory day with Peter Duchin at the piano ($3,750), drumming with Buddy Rich ($5,250) and two "Lessons in Conversation" with Truman Capote, lisped at $3,000. There is also a one-day grounding in economics with doom-crying Economic Forecaster Eliot Janeway, whose price ($2,875) would suggest emigration rather than investment...