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...historic overture to China, containing some highly personal assessments of Chairman Mao and Chou Enlai. Nixon, claims Editor Markell, who visited San Clemente half a dozen times to work with the author, "has a sharp talent for being able to recall the sense of a person." Walter Hunt, a Reader's Digest editor who has read the manuscript, agrees that Nixon brings foreign leaders "alive in a different way than others...
...book with the subtitle Some of My Best Friends Are People should be flung across the room. The reader is urged to employ this method of criticism with the volume at hand, a collection of Leo Rosten's light essays. Book flinging improves the temper of the flinger, and in this case it improves the book as well. Passions and Prejudices, when it is retrieved and smoothed out, gets down to business and stops apologizing for its intelligence...
...REFRESHING as this turn-about is, typed characters stubbornly ward off any threat of intense involvement in most stories. Only the appearance of the author himself on the scene saves the reader from boredom. The unusual method of interspersing autobiographical pieces between short stories unifies the book with a chronological thread. Schorer's own life story is so much more original than that of his characters that it seems to undercut the complacent atmosphere of the short stories more effectively than the author's satire...
...Where once, in the words of a previous editor, Esquire sought to be "smartass," it now respectfully pursues "The American Man and the New Success." Perhaps he's the same young moneymaking male in whom Playboy naturally discerns a "lust for life." Its promotion speaks unctuously of this reader as a healthy radical in the '60s who has joined a "new, but better Establishment." Penthouse sometimes sneaks in an exposé of the CIA among its sex manuals, and smirkily calls itself the magazine that "uncovers" things. Its sexy sister Viva proclaims: "The Viva woman leads the life...
...producer, and Elizabeth Adderley, a formidably bright and attractive woman whose occupation until recently was wife and keeper to a wealthy drunk. David and Elizabeth are old friends, but when they meet for the first time as free-floating singles, each is edgy and hesitant. Before long the reader sees an additional advantage to the subject of divorce and the curious second adolescence that follows a marital split. For American society in most of its aspects is too fluid and amorphous to sustain a comedy of manners (since all manners are equally acceptable). Divorce follows an intricate set of rules...