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Ludvik Vaculik's novel The Guinea Pigs (NY: Third Press) is a most brilliant venture in the Kafka-esque vein. Like Joseph K. in The Trail, Vaculik's hero is a bank employee. He lives a petty monotonous life with his wife Eva, "two tolerable little boys" and a couple of newly acquired guinea pigs that soon become the center of the family life. Our clerk works in a weird bank; enigmatic employees of the bank walkd out everyday with some of the bank notes in their pockets. Sometimes the money is confiscated by the guards at the exit...
...Joke is the story of an individual's life destroyed by the absurdity of a sociopolitical system (and of an era) that was deadly serious. Kundera's new novel Life is Elsewhere (NY: A. Knopf) explores the individual's motivations for joining that system and playing a part in its arbitrary destructive powers...
...Lake Ronkonkoma, NY, another Catholic church named for St. Joseph learned that one of its parishioners, lately forced into bankruptcy, was about to lose his house. Remembering a device used during the Depression, Father John Carew, 70, announced formation of a Save-a-Home Fund. When he made his appeal, Carew said last week, churchgoers "tore the place down with their clapping." The collection produced $5,000-enough to stave off the foreclosure and to help others that the recession threatens to turn out of house and home...
...Crimson was trailing CC NY by only one point before the epee and foil squads threw the match away as they lost the final six bouts...
...spite of all these apparent infractions, Congressmen and Senators have been very careful about impeachment talk. Only a few, like Bella Abzug (D-NY) and John E. Moss (D-Calif.) have openly discussed the possibility of impeachment proceedings. Most are waiting for public opinion to swing against the President and in favor of impeachment before they will participate in such talk. And the Democrats are saying that any impeachment proceedings will have to start with the Republicans...