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With creams, unguents, sprays, scented waters, chlorophyll tablets and electronically-treated toilet tissues, the U.S. relentlessly wars on the odors of nature. This preoccupation with the olfactible has made social outcasts of millions who are, in the language of the ads, not dainty, including Li'l Abner's Moonbeam McSwine. The latest victim is a town-probably at the moment the most deeply disgraced town in the U.S. For, like Moonbeam McSwine, Secaucus, N.J. (pop. 9,750 people and 75,000 pigs...
...counselor to the State Department; John Ciardi, Briggs-Copeland assistant professor of English: John R. Dos Passos '16, novelist; Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis, author and editor and a member of the Yale University Corporation; David Edward Owen, professor of History and chairman of the Committee on General Education; and Warren Abner Seavey '02, Bussey Professor...
...usual, mass production seems to have dulled his choice of material. One poem treats the case of the intellectual whose appreciation of literature has one fatal crack--an inability to appreciate Pogo. This sort of thing has been written in the past about Chaplin, Mickey Mouse, and Li'l Abner. It is hardly an exciting theme, but Updike treats it quite as well as anyone has in the past. Far better is his theme-poem on the crew race at Yale in which a pleasing metre manages to overcome a dull subject...
Wise Blood commands attention for its oddness, and for its occasional passages of crisp writing and sly humor. But all too often it reads as if Kafka had been set to writing the continuity for L'il Abner...
Even in oil-rich West Texas, the area around Midland (pop. 34,256) had once given up hopes for oil. The land had been drilled repeatedly without luck. In 1943, Seaboard Oil found a promising rock formation, but no oil, on Abner Spraberry's farm. Not until 1948 did Wildcatter Arthur ("Tex") Harvey discover that the "Spraberry Trend," as the formation was named, was full of oil, though imprisoned in the fine-grained, hard-packed sands. Then, the new techniques of the industry came into play: soap & kerosene, pumped into the sandstone under tremendous pressure, loosened it enough...