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...Gang: (Starring Tricky and His Friends) is a pleasantly ad hominem attack on the President and his Administration that finds itself just about midway between college humor parody and morally outraged satire. In terms of Roth's previous work, it most closely resembles "On the Air" (New American Review No. 10), a fevered collage of oldtime-radio-programs-as-later-day-confidence-men as they invade the life of a threatened Jewish father. It's Roth's particular talent (or, to be more exact, one of Roth's particular talents) to be able to extract what's most nightmarish...
Without a doubt, the big surprise of the week was the Middies upset at Annapolis. In a game that was tied, 1-1, at the half, the Quakers out shot unbeaten Navy, 32-17. The winning goal came midway through the final quarter...
...freeze. While the President was quoting Mrs. Jones, she was listening to another speech: George Krajewski was proposing marriage to her in front of the TV set, which was turned off. Mrs. Jones accepted. Krajewski, a foreman at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, gave her a diamond ring midway through the President's peroration, and she never heard herself quoted. "I told the President I would be losing about $100 a month because of the freeze," she said later. "But I am willing to sacrifice that $100 if it is for the good of the country. The letter was from...
...sometimes get the feeling there is almost no sector of the University's activities that isn't going to require some attention. What I've been able to give you is only a sample, and I'm sure there are a lot of problems which will appear more important midway through the year that are scarcely perceived at the present...
...reads Georges Simenon detective novels once in a while, and enjoys the company of friends, his two children and his grandchildren. It sounds fulfilling, but a poignant passage from a personal journal several years ago suggests an underlying sadness: "Sun streams into our living room. My hi-fi is midway through the first act of Tristan and Isolde. A very pleasant environment. A man would be a fool not to enjoy himself in it. In a moment I will work on a manuscript which may help mankind. So my life is not only pleasant, it is earned or deserved...