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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Meanderings into Starusch's early love life, barely suppressed feelings of violence and real or imagined career in reinforced concrete multiply, not always fruitfully for the reader. Grass, who has long admired Herman Melville, sometimes seems bound to do lightly for dentistry what the author of Moby Dick did for whaling. Symbols clang. Tartar on the teeth, one gathers, is Evil?"calcified hate." Parallels are drawn?and stretched?between pumice (for cleansing) and pumice (for building), and between middle-aged teeth and the decayed pillboxes on the Normandy beaches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Dentist's Chair as an Allegory in Life | 4/13/1970 | See Source »

...swear Dick, all he was doing was pushing his buffalo to cover...

Author: By Gary Snyder, | Title: Stay in the Streets: Why | 4/13/1970 | See Source »

...returnees to the first boat are juniors, Dave Harman, Dick Moore, Kim Kiley, and Rod Peterson. The newcomers are junior Chuck Hewitt and sophomores Jim Richardson, Tony Brooks, and Phin Sprague...

Author: By James Hines, | Title: Lightweight Crew Faces Columbia, Rutgers Today | 4/11/1970 | See Source »

Other articles by new Poonies start out with good ideas but drag on and on past the point of humor. This misfortune befalls Robert A. Rosenberg in "Mopey Dick." which attempts a chapter-by-chapter account of Herman Melville's classic. "Athelsm and Alcohol." by David H. Gaylin, is an example of another piece which begins nicely-giving an account of the goings-on inside Ye Olde Joynte and Lushe-Haus-but fizzles out toward...

Author: By Samuel Z. Goldhaber, | Title: From the Newssland Poons | 4/7/1970 | See Source »

...censors two weeks prior to broadcast date and his final tapes nine days before. He figures on laying off the Viet Nam issue and leaning into ecology. He would like to venture into animation and electronic experiments with film. What it all adds up to, he says, is that "Dick and I have to get back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Return of the Smothers | 3/30/1970 | See Source »

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