Word: selleck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...schedule of morning services is as follows: Tuesday, June 30: William Y. Elliott; Wed.-Fri, July 1-3: the Reverend Daniel C. Whitsett, Harvard-Epworth Methodist Church; Mon.-Tues. July 6-7, Dr. Dana M. Cotton; Wed.-Fri., July 8-10, George A. Selleck, United Ministry to Students; Mon.-Wed., July 13-15, The Reverend James R. Blanning, United Ministry to Students; Thurs.-Fri., July 16-17, The Reverend Ronald D. Maitland, United Ministry to Students; Mon.-Tues. July 20-21, Professor H. Anderson; Wed.-Fri., July 22-24, Rev. R. Jerrold Gibson, United Ministry to Students; Mon.-Tues., July...
JEFFERSON SELLECK (303 pp.) - Carl Jonas-Little, Brown...
With his daughter's wedding reception going full tilt, and the expensive pop of champagne corks in his ears, Jefferson Selleck slinks off behind the potted palms to a corner sofa and collapses. Later that day, the family doctor gives his illness a medical name-"coronary occlusion." But Jeff Selleck, a successful Midwestern businessman, has more than heart trouble, he has a troubled heart. Slowed to an invalid's pace, Jeff begins to ask himself some embarrassing questions: "What does it all mean? Who am I? ... Why am I here, and where am I going...
...memory heap of five decades, and talks his flashback findings into a tape recorder. As Jeff's soliloquy unreels on the pages of Author Carl Jonas' novel (a February Book-of-the-Month Club choice), it unwraps not a man but a mummy. For Jeff Selleck has not sprung from the soil of the creative imagination; he has been raised from the dust of the literary graveyard. He is a latter-day George Babbitt a westernized George Apley, a bewildered Willy Loman, stained with the pathos oJ success. Whenever Sinclair Lewis, John Marquand or Arthur Miller fail...
...Chief Executive a Pied Piper ... a gifted madman." If Jeff confuses the state of the nation with the state of his soul, it is because Author Jonas has failed to give him one. Swinging through the jungle of his mind on one rotting cliche after another, Jefferson Selleck finally decides that "courage to keep the whole show running" is the only value he knows much about...