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...TURN by John O'Hara. 214 pages. Random House...
BEEN DOWN SO LONG IT LOOKS LIKE UP TO ME, by Richard Fariña (Random House; 329 pages; $5.95), is a pot-and-peyote boiler about a supercooled campus hippie named Gnossos Pappadopoulis. Written by the brother-in-law of Folk Singer Joan Baez, the book is fashionably half-coherent, a collection of Kerouacky kinks. Gnossos turns on four times a day, calls girls "man," says "dig" a great deal, makes like the Green Hornet with cringing officials at Mentor University, rucksacks triumphantly to Mexico, Las Vegas and Cuba, knows how to hot-wire a car, plays Corelli...
While Kansas enrollment has grown to 15,000, the school is also experimenting with ways to keep the intimate feeling of a small campus. Next fall 600 freshmen will be selected at random to live in the same dorms, take the same classes and eat together, to form a "college within a college." But under Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe, a physician and former dean of the Kansas Medical School, the stress is on expansion. Enrollment will go up another 25% by 1972. A $30 million building-construction program was begun in 1965. To top it all, an $18.7 million scholarship...
PAPA HEMINGWAY by A. E. Hotchner, 304 pages, Random House...
...answers can be made. First, every lyric poem is rationalized to some extent on its model. All sorts of syntactic oddities are permitted in sonnets, for example, because they fulfill certain expectations, while the aesthetic order of a poem like Lycidas, random as it may seem today, is regular in terms of its formal cause: the genre. A poem on a "deep" subject--a poem as catholic in its intent as Paradise Lost--has no one model, but uses and subsumes many. Berryman had no model for the Homage to Mistress Bradstreet. Harte Crane's The Bridge...