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PRICKSONGS & DESCANTS, by Robert Coover. In a collection of clever, surreal, and sometimes repellent short stories, the author of The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop, plays a literary shell game with his readers...
PRICKSONGS & DESCANTS, by Robert Coover. In a collection of clever, surreal-and sometimes repellent-short stories, the author of The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop, plays a literary shell game with his readers...
...each and every one of his novels, The Origin of the Brunists and The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop., the one and only Robert Coover performed brilliant literary acrobatics in the center ring. Now, with sleights of hand, desperate feints, chills and thrills, he impersonates the fat man and the thin lady, the magician pulling himself from a hat, the juggler, ringmaster, hall of mirrors...
...were to ensure a more or less independent South, but that is a hopeless task?the Saigon regime will not be able to stand on its own for many years to come, if ever. Certainly it will not do so while it can rely on the American presence to prop it up. "Vietnamization" is a sham, .or at least so poor a bet that it does not justify the continued war effort...
...ball control team, but they at least managed to combine this type of game with some exciting plays in the second half. Up until that time, perhaps the most excitement had come from the band's dancing prop men and the band's skillful integration of the philosophical and the musical when they spelled out Emmanuel Kant's surname and played a fine rendition of "Feeling Groovy." But B. U., after driving to the Harvard five-yard line on rushing, passed to Gary Capehart for the touchdown. Rick Frisbie and Fred Martucci weren't exactly expecting it. J. Bennington Peers...