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News. The show, for which some 168 stations have been lined up (compared with Today's 195), now lasts a full hour and is called CBS Morning News with Joseph Benti. The format eschews such Today specialties as book plugs, chitchat among the cast, skits from upcoming musicals and reviews. It generally sticks to newscasting by Benti, offbeat stories by Hughes Rudd, interviews by Ponchitta Pierce, a comely former bureau chief for Ebony magazine. Benti, 36, and Brooklyn-born, sees his new assignment this way: "Our job is to create a new audience, or to take the old audience...
...Book reviews of the Sears, Roebuck 1897 catalogue, results of a Japanese pingpong tournament and 16 thundering hours of Richard Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung are not normal radio pro gramming. But then, California's non profit Pacifica Foundation, which operates FM radio stations in three...
Befuddled Blessedness. Structurally the book seems simple: a narrative about the struggle between suburban neighbors unabashedly named Hammer and Nailles. The latter, Eliot Nailles, is an apparently commonplace industrial chemist who now sells a spiffy mouthwash. A churchgoer, country clubman, volunteer fireman and commuter, Nailles, in most modern literary hands, might emerge as a figure of fun. Cheever loves him, however, and sees in his dominant character istics-passionate monogamy, joy in small things, and especially in his inarticulate love for his teen-age son Tony-a kind of befuddled blessedness. It is a quality not unlike Billy Budd...
Before the book's final, and perhaps preposterous moment comes (with Tony's near-immolation) the boy's rejection of the outer shapes of his father's world-mouthwash, lawnmower, cocktails, covert sex noises from the bedroom, college, good job-is absolute. He simply takes to bed, hugging the pillow, and won't get up. All he will say to his desperate father is "I love the world. I just feel sad, that...
Abraham and Isaac. Beyond an unfashionable admiration for all that is chaste, honorable and orderly in the world, John Cheever has always been notable for social perceptions that seem superficial but somehow manage to reveal (and devastate or exalt) the subjects of his suburban scrutiny. Much of this book, too, is composed of his customary skillful vignettes in which apparent slickness masks real feeling...