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...HAPPY TIME (RCA Victor). Can a successful world-traveled photographer ever find happiness settling down with a sincere schoolteacher in the small French-Canadian town of his birth? The answer is obvious, and so, too, are the music by John Kander and the lyrics by Fred Ebb from this routine Broadway show. Risking nothing, the songs accomplish little more. Star Robert Goulet comes across like a thin shadow of Maurice Chevalier. As one of the show's songs asks, "With Paris, Rome, Lisbon and Venice, why would anyone want to stay in St. Pierre?" Why, indeed...
Roman Catholics who have long com plained that the rhythm method is a highly unsatisfactory means of birth control because it is so uncertain now have added cause for concern. Two em inent gynecologists, one Irish and one Italian, say that when the rhythm method fails, it carries an added risk that the baby will be fatally malformed, suffering from anencephaly-literally, absence of a brain...
Stale Components. Cross's original concern was to help subfertile couples to have normal babies. Now he has come to believe, as have other embryologists and physiologists, that an unusually high incidence of abnormal births may result from couples' using the rhythm method for birth control and miscalculating the date of ovulation. An ovum may remain fertile for at least two days, and sperm for about 36 hours. Cross says that in the first half of the ovulation cycle, a stale sperm may fertilize a normal egg, and in the second half, a normal sperm may fertilize...
...fear. His scholarly, if often tedious, volume simply gathers every available scrap of information about Crane and his writing, and assembles it in chronological order. The result unquestionably is the most exhaustive biography ever written about Crane-or likely to be written. Nothing is ignored: the details of his birth in 1871, the 14th child of a gentle Methodist minister in Newark, the fairly typical boyhood years in Port Jervis, N.Y., the erratic career as a reporter for New York City papers, and finally, his years as a correspondent covering the Greco-Turkish and Spanish-American wars...
...decades from the '40s to A.D. 2158 and beyond, Vonnegut rockets the reader from the old themes of love, identity, loneliness and the poignancy of human loss to stories concerning population explosion, programmed happiness and the emotions of machines. There are space-age satires about an "ethical" birth-control pill that does not prevent conception or solve the population explosion but takes all the kicks out of sex, and a happiness machine that makes people so euphoric they almost starve to death. Man has once again tripped over his own shoelaces. Though Vonnegut is knocking a misplaced sense...