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...many diseases that are apt to erupt in recruit camps when thousands of young men from diverse backgrounds are thrown together, one of the deadliest is Type C virulent meningitis. The fatality rate is high, and death may occur within a few hours after appearance of the first symptoms. Even victims who recover may suffer permanent deafness or brain damage. Now, reported Lieut. Colonel Phillip E. Winter, the Army has a highly effective vaccine, which was developed by the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research. In the 1970-71 respiratory-disease season, when the vaccine was used only after epidemics...
...usual the substance of the book is Frederick Buechner's amiable conviction that the hound of heaven is a wet spaniel, apt to shake himself at any moment and shower a man with faith and grace. What is also unsettling, in this successful sequel to Buechner's Lion Country, is the considerable attention but negligible weight that this gifted and amusing writer gives to earthly matters...
...last five years, and three factors in particular. First, a general falling off of the economy has cut into university presses more than others because the type of material that they publish is not what the public buys for pleasure. Today the readers of scholarly works are apt to pick them up at the library instead of purchasing them for themselves. Secondly, there has been a cut in Federal appropriations to libraries which further depletes the University Press's market. Thirdly, Carroll cites an inefficient order fulfillment procedure as a reason for the Harvard Press's huge fiscal deficit. During...
...middle 1960s, New York critics were apt to brandish the lordly assumption that everything painted west of Manhattan was provincial and therefore insignificant. It had not been dipped in the rolling Jordan of "the mainstream." When the work of California artists refuted this, the position shifted: now there was a New York-Los Angeles axis, but everywhere else I a vacuum. An exhibition is currently on view at Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art that attacks this generalization too. "Chicago Imagist Art," a grab bag of work by 28 painters and sculptors, moves to the New York Cultural Center...
Familiar Backsides. Though the sex would be considered tame enough by TV audiences in some European countries, it is far more vivid than anything seen on home screens in America. The blonde playgirl in Apt. Six is usually glimpsed half nude, sometimes with nipples showing beneath a see-through blouse. A husband runs his hand under his wife's dress in one episode, and in another, one of the two homosexuals in Apt. Five walks on camera in bikini briefs. Full frontal nudity is out, but both female and male backsides are a familiar sight...