Word: authorization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hamilton--professor of Political Science at Chicago's Roosevelt University and co-author with Stokely Carmichael of Black Power: The Politics of Liberation--would have been the first black professor in Harvard Law School history...
...Black author and teacher Charles V. Hamilton has turned down a one-year post as visiting professor at the Law School for next year...
...choice, half from unspoken fear, the couples herd together like sheep in a storm. During the time of the novel-mid-1963 to mid-1964-the life of the town reaches into them only in minor ways, and the life of the world beyond Tarbox is noted by the author rather than the characters (as upper-middle-class people did in those days, they joke about White House philandering...
...Updike possesses uneven skill as a manipulator or impersonator of characters. For more than half the book it is virtually impossible tell the characters apart or to remember who is sleeping with whom except by drawing a chart. (The generous explanation is that this is not due to the author's lack of craftsmanship, but rather that it represents a deliberate attempt to show the dreary interchangeability of the adulterers.) The novel is seen largely through Piet's intelligence and sensibilities. Most of the other male characters are unreal, merely equipped with identifying jobs and stigmata. Updike paints...
...upstairs bathroom during the Kennedy night party. Her breasts are milk-laden after the birth of her baby. "Nurse me!," begs Piet. Foxy consents, but moments later, Angela knocks at the door In panic, Piet leaps out of the window to the ground two floors below. The author never even winks...