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...advertising industry has been attacked so often that it might scarcely have noticed one more critical book, but the Reader's Digest was not so sure. At the very last moment, it stopped publication of The Permissible Lie, by Samm Baker, on the grounds, as Digest President Hobart Lewis put it, that "advertising is good for business and business is good for the country...
...book was scheduled to appear last week, and 5,000 copies had already been printed. But the Digest was adamant. "Reader's Digest has a point of view," declares Lewis, "and, it seems to me, has a right to its point of view. Funk & Wagnalls is not an independent publishing house but is our subsidiary." To which Baker, among others, retorted that this is precisely the danger facing book-publishing houses when they are taken over by large corporations, as Funk & Wagnalls was 2½years...
...easy enough for a reviewer to dig enough dirt out of William Surface's book to put him under ground (not underground) forever. The Poisoned Ivy is ludi-crously poorly organized, pieced together with the kind of choppy incoherence that insures no reader will be able to read this book for ten minutes without having to put it down...
...reader (participant? player? victim?) who takes the trouble to wade through the latest issue, designed by Brian O'Doherty, should find his senses fully exhausted. There is the script of a "structural play" that diagrams the movements of the performers, who are instructed to costume themselves in "white bodystockings or leotards, with tight-fitting hoods covering the ears and featureless silver masks." There is a do-it-yourself poem in which the author provides the ingredients (adjectives, adverbs, conjunctions, gerunds, capitalized words, etc.) and leaves the composition to the reader. There is a recording of percussion instruments with...
...Another Country, the hero is a black artist, this time a handsome, slightly built 39-year-old actor, Leo Proudhammer. The dramatic high point occurs on the very first page, when Leo suffers a heart attack onstage. From then on, the reader must bear with him through a convalescence plagued by interminable flashbacks. There is a Harlem boyhood that includes an incestuous homosexual interlude with his older brother. This is followed by a pre-hippie East Village adolescence during which Leo begins to forge a lasting black-brother, white-sister relationship with Barbara King, a Kentucky-born actress. And finally...