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...book, a collection of poems called The Carpentered Hen (1958). Many writers would be content to rest, at least for a beat, on such laurels. Not Updike. This month will witness the publication of Bech Is Back (Knopf; $13.95), a series of seven related stories that amount to his 26th volume. This figure does not include Updike's four books for children, which sometimes tug at the dust jackets of their elders and ask to be let into the canon. And No. 27, a thick manuscript of essays, literary criticism, reviews and serendipitous miscellanea, currently sits on a groaning...
Skillful as he is, Ayckbourn has not been totally successful in this, his 26th play. The primary problem is the character of Alistair, who is, despite appearances, the center around which everything turns: he is, the author seems to be saying, the country's true salvation-if he can be made angry enough. Unfortunately, his passivity defeats even his creator, and his belated transformation from mouse to man at Armageddon Bridge seems more like a miracle than an authentic development of character. Beautifully performed, expertly produced and directed by the playwright, Way Upstream is Ayckbourn at his most provocative...
...skimen's moments were unquestionably dim--sophomore Albert Leger had Harvard's best showing with a 26th-place finish in she 15-km. cross country race, alpinist Jeff Donahue copped 34th out of 50 in the slalom, and captain David Rothman, in his first race after a back injury, claimed the Crimson's best showing in the giant slalom with his 43rd-out-of-50 finish...
...high value of the dollar, U.S. businessmen going abroad no longer need to take along a CARE package of cash. The annual survey by Britain's Financial Times reports that London, which last year was the most expensive destination in the world for an American, has fallen to 26th place among 100 major business cities. The cost of bed and breakfast at a first-class London hotel is now only $91.02, as compared with $137 in 1980. Brussels, fifth on the list last year, has plunged to 30th place...
...assure you, dear comrades, that, in these difficult days, the [Soviet] Central Committee, all Soviet Communists and the entire Soviet nation are in solidarity with your struggle. Our point of view has been expressed with precision in the statement of Comrade L. Brezhnev at the Soviet Party's 26th Congress: "We shall not let socialist Poland be harmed, and we shall not abandon a fraternal country in distress...