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...With this kind of awareness of the truth, you can change me from being one of your sternest Negro critics to an enthusiastic reader. Having been given a chance, many Negroes have already proved by their achievements that their intelligence can be matched with that of any other group. But these were the minority who had the strength to persist against great odds. When the majority of Negroes have the chance and feel that their environment is not so overwhelmingly hostile, they will prove it too. Perhaps, in the end, 1967 will be known as the year of developing understanding...
...THAT perceptive paragraph is nearlly the full text of a letter that we got last week from Betsy Tremont, a U.S. Government employee in Teheran. Reader Tremont had spotted a change in the style of our Milestones section. Since the section appeared in the first issue of TIME in 1923, each milestone has usually followed a form fairly described in the reader's letter. In the Sept. 29 issue, we changed the general style. Now a milestone takes a less restricted form, is more like a little story. Reader Tremont doesn't like the new style...
...have never had a crashing revision of format accompanied by fanfare. Yet, as anyone who looks at past copies of TIME will immediately recognize, the editors have changed the magazine gradually but dramatically over the years. In this issue there are two changes in editorial presentation that the reader will first notice when he glances at the index...
Like Nat Turner, Styron grew up in the Tidewater country, and Turner's story preoccupied him long before he began work on the book. From the time he studied writing at Duke University, through tentative years as a part-time manuscript reader for a New York publisher, Styron kept turning back to Nat. "The melodramatic side attracted me first," he says, "which is why I waited. If I had written it as a younger man, it really would have been gothic...
...themes that authors seem to find irresistible are alienated man and Robert F. Kennedy. Which will exhaust the reader first is hard to tell, but so far there have been seven books of Bobbyana, and eight are in the works, to say nothing of uncounted magazine studies...