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...AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS (402 pp.]-Random House...
...poetry (TIME, July 16), the book crinkles with unpremeditated kindness, an uncomplicated acceptance of ordinary humanity. But, like Paterson, it is oddly erratic, even pointless at times, with commonplace anecdotes and trailing reminiscences. It is the kind of book a man might have written for himself and his friends, random recollections never meant for a critical eye. But "Doc" Williams has always written for himself. Of a critic who once doubted the worth of his poetry, he wrote: "To hell with him . . . Tell him to go wipe his nose...
...selection used consists of picking a page in a book at random and then using the last digit of the number as a means of determining who will receive polls.--If the digit is three, every third man is chosen.--"A public opinion expert helped us with this and with the construction of the poll itself," Cole asserted...
REQUIEM FOR A NUN (286 pp.]-William Faulkner-Random House...
...memorable place name of World War II turned up in the news again. The town was Lidice, which Hitler chose at random to avenge the assassination by Czech patriots of Reinhard ("the Hangman...