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...Author Gaddis also intends The Recognitions as a spiritual rebuke ("I wonder, when I step out of doors, how the past can tolerate us"). Unfortunately, the best he can do for a symbol of evil is to trade in Melville's white whale for Manhattan's Madison Avenue. Like other literary specialists in damnation, William Gaddis has held a seashell to his ear and convinced himself that just about all humanity is drowning...
...play has its merits-some whale-boned wit, metaphysical elegances, aphoristic insights. But Fry is more successful using life as a gymnasium than as a laboratory; theatrically, he is in less danger on a trapeze than on terra firma. He can make words perform all kinds of tricks, but not yet pulse with truth. Shaw, too, loved to send up rhetorical Roman candles. but Shaw's, unlike Fry's, sometimes came down hand grenades...
...College Quiz Bowl (Sat. 7:30 p.m., NBC), where four-player teams from competing schools try to beat each other to the punch in answering such questions as: 1) Who was the head of state that the Roundheads beheaded? 2) What 17th century philosopher can be associated with a whale? 3) In ancient Greece, who could call Xanthippus "Dad" and Zeno "Teacher"? 4) Nellie Bly was the "other woman" in a famous triangle-name the couple she broke...
...frog's egg cell. Magnified 24,000 diameters, the membrane of the nucleus looks solid, but poking through it are rod-shaped objects. Dr. Pollister suspects that they are chemical memos ordering the egg to develop into a tadpole rather than into a mouse or a whale...
Although the builders of the first Leviathan got their name for a craft from Canard's newly-launched luxury liner of the same name, its origin is actually in the Book of Job, Chapter 41. In its Biblical cantext, Leviathan means whale or large fish...