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...example, the archdiocese of Mil waukee once affixed the approval of Archbishop William E. Cousins to a notebook in which priests could record the dates and hours of Masses said -even though the volume consisted of blank pages. Under church law, an imprimatur may be granted by the diocese in which an author lives, or where the publishing firm is located, or where the book is actually printed. Since bishops and their censors vary considerably in openness to new ideas, publishers frequently have been forced to display diplomatic ingenuity in finding a prelate willing to approve a touchy book...
...devoted so much of his life to drinking up his talent, Dylan Thomas had a remarkably methodical approach to that talent when he was putting it to work. In his tight, clear script he filled notebook after notebook with the history of his poems-when the idea was first set down, how long he sat on it, how he cleaned up the various versions, what he chose to publish and what he left out. Such matters may seem too arcane for all except literary note-pickers, but for those who remember Thomas as a presence and his Collected Poems...
That possibility was underscored in a notebook that was prepared by a Viet Cong political leader and captured recently by U.S. troops. In it, the guerrilla conceded that the V.C. could not deal , the U.S. and its allies "a lethal blow" and were thinking of turning toward a coalition government as a means of achieving what they could no longer hope to win on the battlefield. The Communists of late have been savagely mauled in battles from Dak To to the Delta...
Twelve or more hours a day, seven days a week in March and early April, advocates argue and re-argue their cases, votes are called, applicants are disposed of. As an advocate argues, the Dean pencils notes into his seveninch thick looseleaf filled with computer forms. In the notebook used by former admissions dean Fred L. Glimp last year, there are notes like "Yale son" in a circle, or "soccer" followed by two exclamation points. Next to each name is a red "A" for accept or a blue "R" for reject--or a red "A" crossed out and replaced...
...none who knew him can resist commenting on the sparkling, playful eyes lodged in his deep and at times overpoweringly sad face. Elizabeth Bishop remembers him looking "small and rather delicate but bright and dazzling, too" on the crest of a Cape Cod sand dune, writing in a notebook. Robert Fitzgerald finds his face "old-fashioned and rural and honorable and a little toothy." His wife says that he grew the immense beard to look like Chekhov, but to another observer it hides "the naked vulnerability of his countenance...