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...upsurge seemed to bear out predictions that 1966 will be the magazines' best year ever, and the pattern generally applied across the board. A surprise exception: the Reader's Digest's 11% drop in ad revenues. Such varied magazines as Cosmopolitan, Teen and Motor Trend all announced revenue increases of more than 50%. Hugh (Playboy) Hefner's HMH Publishing did well enough to declare its first cash dividend, 75? per share, though it was a bit like transferring cash from one pocket to the other. Hefner himself owns 80% of the stock, giving him a personal...
...surrealist style. Practically every philosophy is put in the pillory. Barth contrives to blaspheme against, and maybe illuminate, both Judaism and Christianity, as well as the central tenet of 20th century humanism-that all life can be accounted for in terms of reason. In this prodigious, labyrinthine fiction, the reader is constantly baffled and bamboozled by trap doors and intellectual booby traps. Reading Giles Goat-Boy, and debating its meaning, will surely be one of the most bracing literary exercises of 1966 and beyond. It is a satire of major import...
...that his pals in Washington figure he has made a bad bargain. They told him, he reported in one of his columns: "You are burying yourself in the wilderness. What will you do for entertainment? Who will you talk with about Viet Nam?" His answers were refreshingly direct. "Gentle reader, I haven't found time enough even to think about such things. Who do I talk with about Viet Nam? The boys who have been there and have come home; the people who have a son or a brother in Viet Nam and know more about what it really...
...readings were a smash,. and so was the reader. A stocky little fellow with mouse-brown hair and the eyes of a day-old calf, Voznesensky stumbled onstage like a lost delivery boy. Yet as he stood before the microphone, he swelled as though a mighty wind had rushed into him. His eyes blazed, his arms flung wide, and out of his small body rolled a big dark golden tremolo that thundered in the theater like a Kyrie of medieval Kiev...
...craftsman whose best work escaped the literary basement where most mystery books belong. His Continental Op (for operative), based on the author's own experience as a Pinkerton detective, is authentically tough. All mystery stories are implausible, and so are Hammett's. But in his case the reader accepts their implausibility because the characters, particularly the Op himself-a fat, stubby, middle-aged man who never got a name and needed none, being an archetype-seem so real. "He put these people down on paper as they are," wrote Raymond Chandler, whose fictional Philip Marlowe...