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...demand greater interest in jazz and Protestant liturgy than all readers can provide. Fallaw gives us exhaustive and often confusing detail: "I go under his arm over my head;" "rising and making two medium steps, he pushed shut the door;" "touching the strings with his right forefinger." The protagonist, anonymous for 800 words, suddenly and confusingly becomes "Rip Sanson." There is also some pretty unidiomatic dialogue ("'What say to a good idea, Toby?' Rip kidded him") and this is a story so dry and ascetic that the reader must seek his pleasure in the rendering of realistic detail...
...case-history plot has been dead for some time, but it was not formally buried until Murray Schisgal's Broadway comedy Luv kidded it into oblivion. And the protagonist of Saul Bellow's play, The Last Analysis, complains bitterly: "Doctor, I'm fed up with these boring figures in my unconscious. It's always Father, Mother. Or again, breast, castration, anxiety, fixation to the past. I am desperately bored with these things...
Each half-hour program deals expertly with one specific scientific advance and the personality of the pioneer who made it possible. "The scientist becomes a protagonist," says Herbert, "a man with a struggle." The premiere featured Cornell Zoologist Perry Gilbert and his studies on "Attack Patterns of Sharks...
...Nothing to Laugh At." To friends who urged her to ease up, she replied: "I am the protagonist of women who have nothing to laugh at." She met and fell in love with Sexologist Havelock Ellis, but Ellis was already married. In 1922, she married 3-In-One Oil Company Owner J. Noah H. Slee, after planking down a platform of specific demands to assure her independence: she would continue to call herself Margaret Sanger, she and Slee would occupy separate apartments in the same house, they would even telephone each other to arrange such trifles as having dinner together...
GILES GOAT-BOY, by John Earth. In this novel, which might be called metaphysical science fiction, Barth takes a boy who might be a goat-or a goat who might be the protagonist-into a nightmare collegiate world, which, by flashes of phosphorescent light, might seem to resemble our own. A distinguished puzzle...