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FALLING IN PLACE by Ann Beattie; Random House; 342 pages...
...TALE BEARERS by V.S. Pritchett Random House; 223 pages...
...Tale Bearers is a companion piece to The Myth Makers (1979), which concentrated on European and Latin American literature. Pritchett's subject now is a mixed bag of British and American writers, ranging from Joseph Conrad and Saul Bellow to Rider Haggard and Mary McCarthy. This choice seems random, and indeed it was largely dictated by the books that came to Pritchett for review. The result is a sampler rather than a thesis, and none the worse for that. It is much more fun to be treated than lectured...
...conform to academic standards. They all--in one manner or another--were recruited. But they constitute exceptions. The varsity athletes who compose the bulk of Crimson squads had a bare minimum of contact with the athletic department prior to admission. Even alumni "scouting" is for the most part random and informal. Sometimes, the casual approach proves advantageous for Harvard. As one Crimson athlete says, "Princeton turned me off because the coach was so insistent it bothered me. It felt nice to be wanted, but I began to think twice about the relative importance of athletics...
...first an essential gloss on it. Terry Rex presents Terry (Robertson Dean), the young author of Terry Won't Talk, (which is being performed "downtown"). Terry is tortured by his inability to write, a block he tries to dissolve through both hallucinations induced by lack of sleep and random acts of verbal cruelty toward his girlfriend Kathy (Lisa Sloan) and his friends from college days, Adrienne (Marianne Owen) and Wheeler (Kenneth Ryan). There is no indication by the end of the play that his problem is solved; to the contrary, it seems that Terry will never write successfully again...