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...pieces before he was 40-plus four novels, a volume of essays and the book that made his reputation, Mark Twain's America. He was capable of hacking out 30,000 words in a fecund week of writing romantic serial fiction for the Saturday Evening Post under the pen name "John August," scribbling in panic before the "manias, depression and blue funks" as well as the living expenses that pursued him. (DeVoto had a fondness for domestic help, new Buicks and private education.) This "literary department store" came as close as he could to respectability as a historian...
...wrote an article on The Killing of Sister George, a film which, incredibly enough, was actually banned in Boston. After the article appeared, I received an anonymous poison pen letter with anti-semitic overtones. In that article, I wrote: "The point is that there are certain films that those with conservative tastes ought not to go to. If they do go, in spite of the notices, that is a problem of their personality, not of the film. When will the authorities grow up, and listen to the U.S. Constitution? Adults are old enough to decide for themselves what they want...
What plot the novel has concerns the arrival of those two children-now the famous actor Sir Basil Hunter and the Princesse Dorothy de Lascabanes of Passy-to try to dismantle their mother's property, pen her up in a nursing home, thus reducing her expenses and increasing their inheritance. It is not an original scheme for a long novel, but then White has never been put off by unpromising material. He has also been accused of not liking his characters, and the criticism seems apt regarding the Hunter family and their satellites...
...forecasting the future for Europe as a whole is the performance of the three biggest economies-those of West Germany, France and Britain. Smaller nations are so heavily dependent on them that they cannot hope to immunize themselves from the Big Three's economic ailments. Professor Jan Pen of the University of Groningen says: "To forecast employment and output in The Netherlands, we must first ask how our chief trading partners will fare." Reports from the key economies...
Though the mood of the symposium was not despairing, it was somber. Some of the economists saw difficulties lasting well beyond 1974. Professor Pen suggested that 1974 "could be the first year of the new future"-one in which economists cannot automatically assume that there will be growth every year. If so, he fears, "many people who are now poor will have to renounce any hope of real progress" unless there is a massive redistribution of income...