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...watch. Isadora, Bennet her husband, and Adrian Goodlove, a Laingian from England, get involved in an adulterous whirlwing in Vienna. Bennet--Freudian, careful, compulsively clean, straight, steadfast--represents Isadora's panic about being alone and about change. Adrian--Laingian, irresponsible, egotistical, clown, ass grabber--represents her hunger for the heady and exuberant in life. Isadora tries to choose between them, juggling security with Bennet against escape with Adrian, The National Book Award and the Transatlantic Ass Award. She sleeps with Bennet dreaming of Adrian and sleeps with Adrian needing Bennet. She doesn't want what she has, and when...
Isadora finally summons the guts to run off on an existential experiment with Adrian, which she fails, and royally. "I realize more than ever how unliberated I am. All my high-fallutin' rebelliousness is only a reaction to my deep-down servility." Adrian disappointed her in love, while she had, knowing better, placed a magical efficacy in the word. She hightails it back to monogamy and files him away in her note-book, readying herself for work once again. And here's the key. Having made a mess of her life, only through her work can she piece it back...
Watergate has seen appeals to courts and Congress and led even the most loyal Americans to feel on occasion like strangers in a strange land. Now the Dominican Sisters of Adrian, Mich., are appealing to a higher source. They have devised a prayer for a "government of integrity," calling upon the deity "to strengthen and inspire our representatives to pass legislation that will emancipate us from cancerous greed and conspiratorial secrecy." In Detroit, Archbishop John Cardinal Dearden issued a pastoral letter that noted, "These are difficult days for the country we love," and asked observance of the first three Fridays...
...captains Adrian Tew and Thomas McKinley, the Crimson forwards were superior in their scrums and lineouts in the first victory of the season, but were hindered by the loose rucks's lack of strength...
...Melbourne mouse will run right down again, straight into his hole. Beset by a city-wide rise in food poisoning and mouse-nibbled documents in the Supreme Court, Melbourne health authorities have ordered all-out war on the city's mice. "Even pet mice must go," decreed Dr. Adrian Palmieri, the city's senior district health officer. "They breed like the rest and will mate with wild mice if they get the chance...