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...progress of From the Diary of a Snail is all too consistent with the author's snail principles. On the way to almost any point, the reader is likely to get a favorite recipe from Chef Grass (simmered tripe with caraway seeds) or a growling epithet on Hegel: "Thanks to his subtlety, every abuse of state power has to this day been explained as historically necessary." Another snail detour documents the diaspora of the Jews of Grass's native Danzig during World War II. Here the narration seems to match the sinister creeping pace of anti-Semitism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hesitation Waltz | 10/8/1973 | See Source »

...Book along with half a dozen other children's books. They report that kids who never read before began reading Me-Books compulsively. Sleeping with Me-Books for comfort. Raising hell after leaving a Me-Book at the distant home of a friend. Their list of reader and parent responses concludes: "99% of the parents would like to buy more personalized Me-Books...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: And Now Me-Books | 10/8/1973 | See Source »

There are many other exciting things to see and do in the South End but time and space prevents me from listing them all. Let the reader wander about and discover them for himself. But make sure you get to the park in time for the start of the cross-country meet. That was the whole point of this thing, wasn...

Author: By William E. Stedman jr., | Title: Gamesmanship | 10/5/1973 | See Source »

This semester PBH is offering courses affiliated with the Teachers Aide and Easy Reader programs, London said. He said both are related to volunteer work experiences in Cambridge schools...

Author: By R.w. Palmer, | Title: PBH Sponsors Credit Courses Related to Volunteer Program | 10/5/1973 | See Source »

...only cure is to wait two months between short stories, and this the reader is urged to do. One of the best stories in the first of the collection (thus readable immediately, with no waiting) is called Southern Throughway. It concerns a monstrous traffic jam that develops when vacationers make the mistake of trying to return to Paris one hot Sunday afternoon. As sweat, futility, broiled metal and curses coagulate into semi-permanency (the jam continues through the night, through the next day, the next night, endures for a week, persists for a month, maybe for two months, well into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Quicker than the Eye? | 10/1/1973 | See Source »

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