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...first recipient is Duke University's shy, witty, brilliant Law Professor Brainerd Currie, 52, author of 1963's Selected Essays on the Conflict of Laws, a seminal, formidable tome that Currie characteristically dedicated "To My Wife, who has suffered more from these essays than any mere reader...
...escapes from a novel by watching the author's tricks; if a writer is too obviously skillful he distracts one's attention. Roth has the sense not to do this. He woos the reader instead of impressing him. What seems at first overwriting comes to convey the emotional intensity of the story. But we feel it rather than perceive it. Roth's technique of alternating paragraphs of description and introspection takes a little getting used to. But once we accept it, it overwhelms...
John E. Collins, headmaster of the Newman Preparatory School, was the sole witness for the Attorney General's office. He testified that Fanny arouses "prurient interest" in a reader and that it is "hard core pornography." When Rombar queried him on his understanding of the meaning of prurient," Collins replied that "dirty," "sexual," and "esoteric" would all be acceptable definitions...
...Reader's Digest has always been DeWitt and Lila Wallace's only baby-and in 42 years, the Digest has grown into the biggest monthly magazine in the world, with 25 million circulation. For all of those 42 years, the Wallaces maintained total, if benevolent control over the entire operation. And although for the past few years nearly everyone in the Digest's red brick colonial building in Chappaqua, N.Y., 30 miles north of Manhattan, knew that Wally and Lila had picked their successor, everyone also wondered whether the succes sion would ever take place...
...November winds began to bluster off the Hudson, Ben Joe Hawkes just stood in bed, cutting law-school classes and thinking of North Carolina in the morning. Thus begins what the reader fears will be just another could-he-or-couldn't-he-go-home-again book. And it is, save for a couple of differences. For one, First Novelist Anne Tyler, 22, approaches commonplaces with uncommon empathy, insight and wit; and for another, her protagonist has to address himself to an additional puzzle. The chill on Manhattan's Morningside Heights is nothing compared with that...