The Snow Season.

For these who keep one eye on fashions in culture, quite a bit of entertainment can be derived from the odd figures who are propelled before us, strut their brief hour, and then give way to the next performer. Each appears and has his say; the critics gravely establish their precise relationship to him; he is seen around at symposia; and then he is gone. Thus, we have had the Norman O. Brown season, the Beat season, the Norman Mailer season, the Leslie Fiedler season, the Paul Goodman season, and the C. P. Snow and James Baldwin seasons.

Literature and Science, by Aldous Huxley. Harper, $3.50

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For these who keep one eye on fashions in culture, quite a bit of entertainment can be derived from the odd figures who are propelled before us, strut their brief hour, and then give way to the next performer. Each appears and has his say; the critics gravely establish their precise relationship to him; he is seen around at symposia; and then he is gone. Thus, we have had the Norman O. Brown season, the Beat season, the Norman Mailer season, the Leslie Fiedler season, the Paul Goodman season, and the C. P. Snow and James Baldwin seasons.

Literature and Science, by Aldous Huxley. Harper, $3.50