under the direction of schiffrin, pantheon continued to publish important works by european writers such as "the tin drum" by günter grass, who would later receive a nobel prize for his work; "madness and civilization" by michel foucault, "the lover" by marguerite duras, and "adieux" by simone de beauvoir. by the late 1960s, pantheon started to bring american writers such as noam chomsky, james loewen and studs terkel to european readers. in 1965, rca bought random house. throughout the 1970s, pantheon continued to publish intellectual and often leftist works of fiction and nonfiction "without a profit-and-loss sheet in sight". in other words, pantheon editors prided themselves on subsidizing the cost of publishing less commercially successful (but socially or intellectually important) works with the profits from more commercially successful books.