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...Research on schistosomes. parasites that attack the intestinal tracts of workers in irrigated fields throughout most of Africa and Asia, but on Formosa mainly assail animals. Namru-2 wants to know...
Moscow's minutes, which sold out within hours, showed that after Bulganin admitted "joining" the "antiparty activities of Malenkov, Molotov, Kaganovich and Shepilov," speaker after speaker rose-obviously in a coordinated assault-to assail his confession as "feeble" and "unconvincing." Said Agriculture Minister Vladimir Matskevich, a longtime Khrushchev henchman from the Ukraine: "Bulganin now pretends that he only joined the group at the last minute. This is not true. If Bulganin has in fact repented, then he must disarm himself completely and tell honestly about his subversive work and about the roots that have remained...
...when I tell them about all this," she sobs, "who's going to believe me!" He grandly scribbles a testimonial, and signs it. Somehow, after her taste of the finer things, life on the streets does not seem the same to the little whore. Nameless yearnings assail her. One day she joins a procession to a shrine of the Virgin. She falls to her knees and groans: "Holy Mother, help me to change my life...
...with dried human flesh, he has committed another act that revolts him and leads directly to madness. By this time he is sure that God has spoken to him, but he has long since lacked the strength of mind to solve either the spiritual or moral problems that assail his failing brain...
This is a brilliantly written first novel, vastly (and sometimes sadly) amusing. So far, Author John Cheever, 44, has been content for a quarter-century to write excellent short stories, most of them about New Yorkers whose fears, despairs and inadequacies assail them in weary moments of truth. But now he has tackled the Wapshots, infinitely bigger game demanding stronger writers' weapons. Cheever has them...