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...first published in 1960, has gradually seem this gap in perception shrink over the years. Now the author of some 20 additional adult and children's books, she still gets about 60 letters a week from appreciative readers and readers of the same story, which follows 12-years-old Meg and her brother on a quest through time space and mathematics to save their father from evil forces. In this early 1960s, L 'Engle says, the letters were almost all from children. But since then the balances has gradually shifted, and more than half her readers are past adolescence...
...page, not a single page of the original remained. The writer obviously though it was a book for little tiny children," she says bristling up as if the film makers had attacked one of her own off spring. "He made Meg 10 years old. 10! what happens to her relationship with Calvin at age 10. I'd like to know?" Almost as an afterthought she add. "In a white heat of outrage I dashed of 25 pages of film treatment." After some political reshuffles, she is now shuttling back and forth to Hollywood to finish...
...falls for James Coles (Meg Tilly) nevertheless. Their growing relationship introduces problems an innocent Tex either always overlooked in his friendship with Johnny or never realized. Because of her money. Jamie like her brother is a "goer" as a carnival fortune-teller first tells...
History is a nightmare into which the antihero of Good sleepwalks. John Haider (Alan Howard) is a decent enough human being. He is kind to his wife Helen (Meg Wynn-Owen), though she is an execrably sloppy homemaker. Even if he has to cook the meal, he sees to it that his three children are properly fed. With his mother (Marjorie Yates), who is blind, senile and bitter, Haider is agonizingly solicitous...
Resentment reached the flash point with Washington Post Editorial Page Editor Meg Greenfield when she "looked at the disaster area that is my desk and saw that everything on it had two or three p.r. firms' names on the letterhead." Greenfield sent a fiery memo to Post Executive Editor Ben Bradlee. "We don't want any of that damned crowd around here," she wrote. "If people want to get to us ... it's as easy as pie, so long as they don't come in (or send their manuscripts in or make a request...