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...hospital, where mixed-up army officers are vetted, but the focus shifts to a nearby military installation engaged on a sinister project known as Operation Apollo. Kingsley Amis, whose The James Bond Dossier shows a theoretical as well as a practical interest in secret agentry, plays fair with the reader. Atomic rifle ammunition for issue rifles seems to be the secret of Apollo; the suspected leaks include a friendly neighborhood nymphomaniac, a particularly nasty psychiatrist, an alcoholic-homosexual and the chaplain, who is a devout atheist. Amis keeps the reader looking in the wrong direction until the highly sophisticated...
...Land, about the same enlightened multimillionaire who had been made Hero of the Soviet Union after dragging a paralyzed Russian explorer to safety over an incredible distance of polar ice. Has he been brainwashed? The sinister Admiral Lille, chief of naval intelligence, seems to think so, and the reader may well decide, despite Aldridge, that the old sea dog is right. There is a great deal of top-level muckraking about the malevolent moral dwarfs who operate international finance-capitalism; it is possibly the least convincing stuff since Upton Sinclair's Lanny Budd went crusading for a better world...
...traditional poetry. "It's ludicrous to think of an undergraduate sitting down in 1966 to write a classical lyric." His own writing, both poetry and prose, is "thinkable, but not readable -- there is a majesty and grandeur in something that's in its crude, formative, germinal stages, where the reader can fill in the gaps." And then, characteristically, interrupting his own lecture to shriek. "Poetry is wonderful -- it's nonsense -- I love...
Changing the Histories. As the multiracial reader begins to catch on, Negro groups are making an even greater push to eliminate distortions and omissions in history textbooks. Until recently, some popular texts depicted the plantation life of Negro slaves as a carefree round of play, song and dance but did not mention slave uprisings or the Underground Railroad to freedom. Researchers at Tufts University last month completed a study of 24 elementary school social studies books, found that many are "tinged with racism." A B'nai B'rith study of 24 high school social studies texts disclosed that...
...Steagle (Random House) by Irvin Faust, 42, a Long Island child-guidance counselor, let the reader beware: this pop novel pops so violently that it cannot safely be perused without welding goggles. It tells the story of a man in whom two personalities merge-as pro football's Pittsburgh Steelers and Philadelphia Eagles once merged into "The Steagles." The man is Harold Aaron ("Heshy") Weissburg, a nice Jewish intellectual who lives with his nice wife and their two nice children until-CHOONG! The Cuban missile crisis blows up his complacency and releases his alter ego: an unquiet Quixote...