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...down the Great American Novel" as "never getting beyond his barbaric yawp." I feel sure that hundreds of thousands and more-who have read Tom's "Promise of America" and "Credo," both in You Can't Go Home Again-would disagree. This same multitude of readers of Tom's books would also take issue with (as I do) the statement "that Tom asked more of life than he had the talent to pay for." He paid well with his talent for all he got from life, and has left his heritage as proof for readers. You didn...
...recent issue contains a letter from an irate reader, Mr. Ball, who feels that college students' reluctance to enlist is "sickening" and also accounts of the Pueblo incident, the battle at Khe Sanh, and the accidental violation of the Cambodian border by allied troops [Feb. 2]. As one of the 98.3% of students who have not yet enlisted, may I point out to Mr. Ball that our reluctance stems in part from our doubts about the ability of our country's leaders to conduct America's affairs and the competence of our military professionals to direct...
...been supported in part by the Washington Post and Newsweek, which together had contributed $15,000. Whether the USSPA will find it easy to get sponsors for next year's gathering is problematical. After a considerably tamer conference in 1966, both the Overseas Press Club and the Reader's Digest withdrew their support...
...definitive" book on the subject. Still, Kahn, an ex-reporter, has produced an astonishingly thorough study. He deals not only with the codebreakers but also with the codemakers and nearly everyone of any consequence who has ever used codes-or seriously thought about them. As he guides the reader through the difficulties of steganography (invisible ink, microdots), monalphabetics (simple, one-alphabet systems, such as the one described in the box, next page), and polyalphabetics (many alphabets used in the same cipher message), Kahn keeps his subject lively and even dramatic. He describes, for example, how cryptology helped...
Nothing in the versatile Vidal's past will quite prepare the reader for Myra Breckinridge. Vidal and his publisher, insisting that the sexual problems of the title character represent a suspense element vital to the novel's enjoyment, coquettishly plead that the book not be reviewed at all. However, anyone who has been to far-off, murky Venice-or just down to the local fag bar-will recognize Myra's true gender long before Vidal coyly pronounces the paradigm. And in all conscience it can be reported that the key to Myra's sexual-identity crisis...