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...commendably professional sheen, and its contents sought to grapple with some of the problems and interests of its peers: a Denver boy's account of how it feels to be a high school dropout, a page of verse composed by an 18-year-old girl, a random assortment of teenage views on public school integration. All this may not have looked like serious competition to the call of the juke joint, but the first run of 5,000 copies sold briskly at 25? each...
...NUITS-DE PARIS by Nicolas-Edme Restif de la Bretonne. 375 pages. Random House...
...baton away from him and began trying to conduct the 30-piece orchestra; she draped the cord of her microphone around the head of one of the violinists; she sat on a chair and seemed to be muttering to herself. She slurred through some of her songs at random. "I'm supposed to be temperamental," she explained...
...encouragement of Bowles and the help of a tape recorder, Charhadi narrated the life of a fatherless child growing up in the boondocks of French Morocco. A horrible life it is-on the move, short of food, rarely with a job, and always subject to thievery, peonage, and random homosexual attack. "It sounds very fine in Moghrebi," Bowles told his talkative protege, "but I can't tell you anything until I've changed it into English." Probably shouldn't have tried...
CRISIS IN BLACK AND WHITE by Charles E. Silberman. 370 pages. Random House...