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...assumptions. Even in Rabbit's running days, America was not a land where the individual counted all that much, but there was still Jiminy Cricket to sing that "you couldn't ask a waterfall to be a tree." In Redux, when Rabbit and Nelson watch television, the Lone Ranger is mocked, and even Tonto involved in general degradation. To Rabbit, "America is beyond power, it acts as in a dream as a face of God. Wherever America is, there is freedom and wherever American is not, madness rules..." His belief is pure, and purely unreal; linked to a Calvinist temperament...

Author: By Michael Sragow, | Title: Updike's Rabbit, Back in Brewer | 1/4/1972 | See Source »

...hard time getting used to sunlight. "I've got to learn to talk to people again," he told one of his State Department escorts. After speaking to him on the phone, his daughter Sidnice had the same thought: "He hasn't spoken English for so lone he has forgotten...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Two-Fifths Thaw | 12/27/1971 | See Source »

SUPREME COURT. After minimal debate, the Senate voted 89 to 1 to confirm Nixon's nomination of Lewis Powell, the Richmond lawyer who is a past president of the American Bar Association. The lone dissenting ballot was cast by Oklahoma Senator Fred Harris. Said Senator Henry Jackson: "One wonders why it has taken so long to propose a man of Mr. Powell's stature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The Congress: A Fight to the Finish | 12/20/1971 | See Source »

...favorite target, Wide Receiver Paul Warfield, leads all rivals in touchdown receptions (eleven) and yardage gained (861). On defense, veteran Linebacker Nick Buoniconti anchors a quick, fierce unit that has held opponents to an average of eleven points a game. Summing up, Offensive Tackle Norm Evans, the lone survivor of the first Dolphin team of 1966, says: "We have a winning attitude...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Super Bowl Bound | 12/13/1971 | See Source »

...Crimson expects to have an advantage in the field events. Sophomore Leon Sharpe should win both the triple jump and the high jump, but Harvard has no depth behind him. Second Joe Naughton is the favorite for the shot put and sophomore Jay Hughes, the lone 35-pound weight entrant, should give him support...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Army Track Meets Harvard Today | 12/11/1971 | See Source »

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