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Read one way, maybe the wrong way, The Autograph Hound is a cliche checklist of comic Americana. It's set near Times Square (funny on the face of it, no?), and much of the action passes in an Italian restaurant where the Puerto Rican headwaiter is tricked out to look like a cowboy. The autograph hound is Benny Walsh, a busboy at a big Broadway restaurant called the Homestead. His girl friend Gloria burbles about cottages for two, aspires to break into show biz, but acts in skin flicks. What Aristotle would call the complication is simplicity itself: Benny...
...choices on the registration checklist are: "I'm impecunious. Can you call me and let's talk about deferring the registration [fee] until my finances are better?" and "I will need housing at good ole Harvard. I'll need some place to crash [pick a night]." Or, for humor, "I'll be arriving by plane, bus, train or sailboat and will need to be picked...
THERE HAVE been so many books about young people and the revolution, and so many of them have been so bad, that it's easy to become skeptical of anyone trying to write about the revolution in human spirit. The usual checklist of "youth culture" rhetoric-radicals, drugs, sex, "the establishment"-is so common, that it's become easy to fall into the trap of thinking that no one has anything really important or sensitive to say. It's become easy to read a jacket cover blurb like "Sonzski may be as meaningful for his generation as Salinger...
...Students should sign the checklist at 245 William James Hall to indicate their course options...
...martial tone, that quotation is not an excerpt from the maxims of Chairman Mao or Che Guevara's advice to guerrillas. It is a sample from the conventional wisdom of A Checklist for Plant Security, a 16-page pamphlet published by the National Association of Manufacturers and distributed to 250,000 businessmen. Its militant, military style is a direct response to the disturbing fact that U.S. business is now under siege-the target of a multipronged assault by forces ranging from outside political protesters to embezzling employees...