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DELIVERANCE by James Dickey. 278 pages. Houghton Mifflin...
...James Dickey's four characters seem far from ready for challenge or response. One is a quiet sales supervisor for a soft-drink company who not only believes in his company's product but in its advertising. Another sells mutual funds. Dickey's narrator, Ed Gentry, runs a Southern graphics studio cheerfully described as a "no-sweat shop." Just occasionally he is nudged by a fear of encroaching flab and a feeling that he is sliding too easily through life. Of them all, only Lewis Medlock seems outward-bound for the heart of darkness...
...Criticism," with a stress on close textual analysis-the Kenyon also published fine poetry. Its first issue carried the work of a 22-year-old student at Kenyon College named Robert Lowell. Other issues ran a lot of early Dylan Thomas, much of Wallace Stevens and, later, some James Dickey. Its four issues a year, published in paperback format, were a delight to discriminating readers around the world, from Nehru to Ernest Hemingway...
...that the telephone is no longer a substitute for a personal visit. "They have to become salesmen again," says Eugene Jannuzi, chairman of Pennsylvania's Moltrup Steel Products Co. There is a much longer delay between a customer's inquiries and the actual placement of orders. Robert Dickey III, president of Pittsburgh's barge-making Dravo Corp., complains that customers now wait until the last minute to seal deals that would have been immediately snapped up six months...
Pusey was one of three Ivy League presidents who did not sign the letter. Kingman Brewster Jr., president of Yale, had sent a stronger letter to Nixon last Thursday, asking for unconditional withdrawal of American troops from Vietnam. A spokesman for John Sloan Dickey, pres-ident of Dartmouth. said that Dickey thinks he can be "more effective if he doesn't take public stands in foreign affairs. Dickey, who was a State Department official before going to Dartmouth, has in the past expressed his opposition...