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Like Huxley, Wilson can become an abstract moralist. The reader meets hun gry masses rather than hungry people. But in his gadfly or Waughspian capacity Wilson achieves top form. As If By Magic is rich in stock (but not too stock) characters: Japanese businessmen, German tourists, English eccentrics, American divorcees who look like failed Myrna Loys...
Sophomore goaltender Cap Raeder returns this year after compiling a 3.35 goals-against average last season. Reader's best performances came in relief last year against RPI, Boston College, and Clarkson, when he stopped 118 out of 128 shots...
...make-out: he's raped by a Russian Kamchatka Bear at a jungle-like estate in England. This experience gives him a renewed existential meaning, as he proclaims, "I'm kinky for bears." The bizarre tone of Elkin's humor, and complicated narrative twists, which often expect the reader to believe first-person accounts of thoroughly untrustworthy characters are as rewarding as they are trying. Somehow, it all makes a peculiar sense--there is no reason, everybody is insane...
...longtime reader of TIME, I deeply regret your editorial urging President Nixon to step down...
...individual expression over and against the manipulated and prepackaged garbage the commercial culture foists on us. All this is profoundly true. Cox points to the spiritual autobiography of Augustine and to the journals of Kierkegaard as examples of the immediacy of understanding and identification that "testimony" brings to the reader of a theologian's work...