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...speak as many as three languages), and in the space of less than two years have risen to command a field until now considered almost a closed U.S. shop. Ironically, the new model is also softer and less alarmingly dramatic, thus making it easier for the ordinary U.S. woman reader to visualize herself (if only she could lose 20 Ibs.) wearing those svelte creations of haute couture...
...Roger Duvoisin writes and draws about a Mr. Bobbin, a hunter who never shot any foxes, deer, raccoons, woodchucks, squirrel or quail. Duvoisin has the blessing of the Christian Science Monitor on the book's blurb, but it is going to be a traumatic moment for the Duvoisin reader when he graduates to Gunsmoke and learns that people shoot not only animals but other people. Then there is Patrick Michael Kevin, by Betty Peckinpah (Lothrop, Lee & Shepard; $2.75), an implacably coy account of a little boy with long red hair and eight sisters, and how he survived the Freudian...
Tropic of Cancer remains an extremely difficult book to fathom. The personality in back of it has unsounded depths. To even glance at them may get the reader lost in disgust or chaos. But Miller has written an apology as eloquent...
...reader who does not mind being splattered in the encounter with Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer is a book very much to be sought after
Such fresh onslaughts on the serious reader's attention are signs that the Sunday paper is in ferment, still unsure of its role in a changing world but willing to search it out with fresh ideas and experiments. Out of the ferment may come a rededication to solid news values. It is not by chance but design that the bulkiest Sunday newspaper of them all, the New York Times, is by no means devoted to fluff; the Times Sunday news sections generally outweigh the total contents of many of its competitors. "The trend on Sunday as well as daily...