Word: barth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Winters are hard but bracing: "Our best time of year," according to a Duluth mine worker. "They build character," says Frank Barth, a transplanted Chicagoan. "They are a great blessing to us. You don't get the weak-kneed beachboys here. They can take it for one winter, then leave." Dr. Ronald J. Glasser, a Minneapolis kidney specialist and author (365 Days, Ward 402) who grew up in Chicago, argues that Minnesota winters account for a lot of the social solidity and character of the state. Says he: "You have to be strong and productive to survive here...
...PROBABLY fair to say that the Novel came out of the sixties less dead than it came in. For the most part, that was thanks to the experimentation of people like Pynchon, William Gass, John Barth, Donald Barthelme and Robert Coover who were busy providing a set of new literary forms aching for new literary content. And now, just in the past year or so, two novels have appeared that make glimmer the hope that the old Genre might be back on her feet before long. Gravity's Rainbow, when it is working, is one of these, Updike's Rabbit...
...about how children learn, uses more teaching materials and gives the teacher a more difficult task-to know just when the child is ready for his next stage of development. The movement is growing so rapidly that few teachers are prepared for it-and even fewer parents. Says Roland Barth, an elementary school principal in Newton, Mass.: "Most parents view open classrooms as a risky, untried experiment with their children's lives-a gamble best not taken." In a new book, Open Education and the American School, he warns that as the new system is now being applied, children...
...Marx Brothers return to ORSON WELLES CINEMA TWO in Go West at 5:35 and 9, and Night AT the Opera at 4, 7:45 and 10:45. There's a midnight show of the execrable film of John Barth's End of the Road Saturday...
...Chimera is finally unsatisfying, unrealized. Barth's imagination has soared higher, his wit has pierced sharper. Still, there are moments when it is all working, when the myth, the irony, and the experiment resolve themselves into some sort of precarious harmony, and the radical possibilities of this fiction come clear. So it is not too much to hope that the seventies will yet bear what the sixties begot. It is not too much to hope that Barth's best work is still unwritten...