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...Hoban, 36, who is such a Salinger fan that he and his wife named two of their daughters after Salinger characters, Esmé and Phoebe. In painting how Zooey, Franny, Mrs. Glass and Holden look to him, Hoban was fearful of violating "their private rights to exist in the reader's mind," and tried to be scrupulous to the author. "Salinger, I think, is a man without eyelids," says Hoban. "All of his material comes to him so painfully; it costs so much to write, more than anyone else who comes to mind...
...sake of Charles Davis, and others like him, I hope God is not a reader of TIME...
...hundreds of years, biologists have used the symbols δ for male and φ for female without really knowing-or caring-why. To the incurious among them, the derivation of these symbols might have remained a mystery had not a curious reader of the British magazine New Scientist demanded an explanation. In a recent issue, Dr. William T. Stearn, a botanist at the British Museum (Natural History), tells how the symbols evolved...
...saved from being only one more cast-of-dozens slum epic by the author's deep love for all his characters, good and less good, and by the intensity of his inquiry. Some writers reveal things about their characters; Fuchs asks. It is his curiosity that takes the reader, not his revelations. One shares Philip's question about the butcher upstairs who makes a gas mask out of a basketball bladder and asphyxiates himself: "O Meyer Sussman! As a favor to a young writer, will you ask God for me what made you squeeze the basketball bladder over...
...idling dreamer full of fast-buck schemes, who meets the disaster expected by everyone but himself. Some of the family scenes sound like Arthur Kober's My Dear Bella rewritten by Nathaniel West, but all of the novel that is likely to remain with the reader is the figure of Max Balkan's father, the extragedian of the Yiddish theater who now wears clown makeup and carries sandwich boards for a beauty parlor...