Ravi Shankar plays sitar on The Dick Cavett Show. This episode was originally telecast by ABC on November 23, 1971:
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Almanac: John Updike on writers and their enemies
“Writers take words seriously—perhaps the last professional class that does—and they struggle to steer their own through the crosswinds of meddling editors and careless typesetters and obtuse and malevolent reviewers into the lap of the ideal reader.”
John Updike, “Writers on Themselves: Magic, Working Secrets” (New York Times, August 17, 1986)