Marquand
DiLorenzo, Ronald
ing in his cell for the final light to materialize: a preparatory exercise for death, the realm of vanishings and total shadow from which the world of light will emerge in all its clarity....
...F. I. Office use, lefi over, unaccoented, spoiled after printing: 1.644...
...He needed reassurance tttat he belonged, but he was never satisfied, always haunted by the feeling of being a poacher on his own turf...
...After a full life he died, Bell says, lonely and unhappy...
...Wfltshire, England...
...Here the author of such insightful and readable books as The Affluent Society and The New Industrial State treates his readers not to new information but to his own literate reactions to some recent controversies and books...
...Often in Bell's account Chekhov's Trigorin from The Sea Gull comes to mind...
...He repeats that all analyses of economic activity which elide the problem of power and identify economic problems in terms of market imperfections must misconstrue the problem of stagflation, the coupling of inflation and unemployment: 9the large corporations, unions and numerous individuals have escaped Statement of Ownership, Management and Circulation (act of August 12, 1970: Section 3685, Title 39, United States Cede...
...B Paid Cireulatiou: I. Sales through dealers and carriers, street vendors and counter sales: 1.355 2. Mail suhecnptious: 17,384 C. Total paid circulation: 18,739...
...Shaw would not have read this book...
...1 Title of publication: COMMONWEAL...
...Walter Dower...
...Richard Nixon (thoughtall evil disappeared if it had a precedent...
...copies printed (Net Press Run): 22.248...
...But the mind is lively, civilized, rational, and, the world offering such an obvious foil for such gifts, often witty...
...Alger Hiss (to have Nixon as an accuser does not by itself make one innocent...
...Actual number OFcopies of a single issue pubhshed nearest to filing date:Total number copies printed (Net Press Ran): 22,300...
...2. Returns from news agents: 1,020...
...Evelyn Waugh (raised nastiness to high art...
...He is mostly rational in the first 12 chapters dealing with economics and economists (his 1972 presidential address at the eighty-fifthannual meeting of the American Economic Association, "Power and the Useful Economist," is placed in an appendix...
...NY 10016...
...Managing Editor, Peter Steinfels, 232 Madison Ave., NewYork, NY 10016 70wner(lfownedbyacoqloration, its name and address must be stated and also immediately thereunder the names and addresses of stockholdet,s owning or holding I per cent or more of total amount of stock): Commonweal Publishing Co...
...11 Average number of copies each issue during preceding 12 months: A. Total no...
...The near alliteration of John Kenneth Galbraith's title minors this not-qulte-a-book collection of essays on economics (about 40 percent of the book), political and business swindles, personal travels, novelists, and writing...
...writing (be brief...
...William Pfaff, Paris...
...Bernie Cornfeld (shows fools and their money can still be parted...
...Pasado en claro, the masterful title of the book: Who will open my eyes to that other illusion--death...
...Edward S. Skillin...
...Estate of Otto L. Spaeth, 20 East 81st St . New York, NY 10028 8. Known bondholdeeL mortgagees and other security holders owmng or holding I per cent or mote of total amount OFbouds, mortgages or other securities...
...Maybe what happened was that the professional triumphed over the artist...
...Total,distriitotion (sum of C and D): 19,579...
...He deliberately painted himself into a corner, following advice from The Saturday Evening Post but telling friends he should know better, or denouncing The-Book-of-the-Month-Club as a middlebrow octopus but staying on its selection board for over fifteen years...
...Derived from impressive colonial American ancestry, but with diminished family fortunes and a lackluster father, young Marquand was forced to forego a fancy prep school for the local public' high school, and didn't enter the right clubs at Harvard...
...In these chapters he advances, for those familiar with his work, no new theory or argument...
...C. Total paid circulation...
...Although I did, not every reader willfind each of Galbraith's recent thoughts and experiences of inordinate interest, such as his account of his stuck zipper in Australia...
...Anthony Trollope (money need not destroy art...
...2. Date of filing: Septemher 23, 1980 3 Frequency of issue: Biweekly, except monthly Chrlstmas-New Years and July and August...
...2 Returns from news agents: I,O25 G Total (sum of E and F should equal net press mn shown in A): 22,248...
...D Free distribution by mail, carrier or other means, sample complimentary and other free copies: I.I 55 E. Total thstribution (sum of C and D): 19,242...
...232 Madison Ave...
...RONALODiLORENZO ANNALS OF AN ABIDINGLIBERAL,by John Kenneth Galbraith, Houghton Mifflin, $12.95, 384 pp...
...Among them: his FBI file (expensive and they spell his name wrong...
...B. Paid Circulation: I. Sales through dealers and cartiers, street vendors and counter sales: 1,295~ 2. Mail subscriptions: 16,792...
...In Brief MARQUAND: AN AMERICANLIFE, by Millicent Bell, Atlantic-Little, Brown, $17.95, 537pp...
...Location of known office ofpublination: 232 Medsiou Ave., New York, NY 10016 5. Location of the headquarters of general business offices of the publishers: 232 Madison Ave., New York...
...the "global strategic mind" (uncontrollably drawn to any world map and, outside of Harvard classrooms, quite dangerous...
...A. Annual Subscription Price: $20.4...
...Most disturbing of all is the way Marquand's life situation Was mirrored in his art situation...
...Edward S. Sktllin, Publisher Commonweal:574...
...18,087...
...Editor, James O'Gara, 232 Madison Ave., New York, NY 10016...
...New York, NY 10016...
...Total (sum OFE and F should equal net pt-'-t~srun shown in A): 22,300 I certify that the statements made by me above are correct and complete...
...He explains again why economics cannot be, and never was, a non-political discipline...
...Kathleen Casey Craig, Sewickley...
...Clearly Marquand must have enjoyed his writing, but one reads sadly and in vain in Bell for a sense of Marquand's passion for literature, or of anythingbut a game, a gimmick, a business, or a deadline...
...With a rare understanding Millicent Bell shows why success hung so heavy on John P. Marquand...
...Inc., New York...
...Years later, after enormous success as a writer, he would seek to lead 4th of July parades or speak at the opening of a new A&P...
...D. Frte distribution by mall...
...In a good chapter entitled"Writing and Typing" Galbraith approvingly observes that George Bernard Shaw said that as he grew older he became less interested in theory and more interested in information...
...Bell's account of Marquand's two marriages, each to pedigreed New Englanders and each loaded with ambivalent Marquand feelings, is rich in compassionate insight...
...NY 10016...
...carrier or other means, sample complimentary and oth~'free copies: 840.'E...
...I go back to my Scriptures: I have not been Don Quixote, I have never undone any wrong (though at times I've been stoned by shepherds) but I want, as he did, to die lucid, with eyes open, knowing that to die is to return, the soul, or what we call the soul, turned to transparency, at one with the three states of time and the five directions...
...6 Names and addresses of publisher, editor and managing editor: Publisher, Edward S. Skilhn, 232 Madison Ave., New York, NY 10016...
...Was his heart in it...
...the Taj Mahal (a marvelous tribute...
...F 1 Office use, left over, unaccounted, spoiled after printing: 2,038...
...None...
...John Dean (predictable: willing young men accountable only to their presidential creators...
...Adlal Stevenson (more amorous than erudite...
...the Australian Indian-Pacific train (relaxing, and Australia is undemanding...
Vol. 107 • October 1980 • No. 18
