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Pope-Hennessy, authorized biographer of Queen Mary, grandson and biographer (Verandah) of a British colonial governor, is not a formal historian; his book is a stark, sometimes emotional act of moral scrutiny. From brutal start to finish, he documents the slave traders' operation as a "vast complex of international crime." Captains' letters, half-literate journals, freed slaves' memoirs-all the available primary sources are meticulously assayed, not so much to show how the slave trade operated as to try to explain...
...concluded that censorship should go. Last June, after a minimum of debate, the 176-man Parliament agreed by an overwhelming vote of 159 to 13. What happened? Immediately, of course, a flood of new books came out under such labels as the "Porno Series" and with such titles as Stark-Naked, the story of a frigid girl whose therapy by an orgasm expert is carefully detailed. The ecstatic exactness of description had not been legal before, and publishers settled back to await the hordes of buyers...
...crib sheets on courses, compiled by students who attended class regularly and took notes for their less conscientious brethren. Probably the most successful of the pony stables in attracting academic talent is Educational Research Associates Inc.,* a West Pittston, Pa., firm headed by former High School Teacher Paul Stark. He argues that students do need up-to-date, soundly based guides because "many teachers have not introduced a new thought in their courses from the time they received tenure...
...when Stark first solicited professors with solid reputations, he found that "I might as well have asked somebody to write a book saying Communism is good for you." Within a year, a few teachers had succumbed to his arguments, and he now has some 60 authors and editors under contract. Half of them are full professors, 14 head departments in their schools, eleven also edit scholarly journals. Among them are Dostoevsky Scholar Edward Wasiolek, head of the University of Chicago's comparative-literature program, and Milton Specialist John T. Shawcross of the University of Wisconsin...
Bellocchio put up most of the mon ey for Fists in the Pocket himself, cast it with friends and beginners willing to take a chance, and shot it at a villa that belonged to his mother. The stark, Faulknerian story of Fists in the Pocket is so gruesome that it often seems faintly ridiculous. In a decaying country house lives a blind woman with two epileptic teen-age sons and a neurotic daughter-all supported by her oldest son, who has a job in a nearby town and wishes he could afford to get married. It looks...