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...young new U.S. writer, who instinctively differentiates between the hawk of living and the handsaw of existing. He appears to have lived considerably himself, in unusual ways and places. He knows how trout-fishing in Michigan feels; how Yankee jockeys, straight and crooked, ride on European tracks; how half-breed squaws bear their children back of the logging camps; how bulls and toreros slaughter one another in Spain. How he knows things you cannot say; he writes so directly, without fuss and feathers, with so little explanation of himself. He is that rare bird, an intelligent young...
...Cambridge resident reported that between 9 p.m. Feb. 26 and 7 a.m. Feb. 27 someone dognapped a 10-week-old mixed-breed dog named Lucky...
Writing is a deceptive activity. It appears to the general public, and to that lesser breed of writers, as an activity, something to be put on a summer camp agenda, if you will. The image of the writer is Hemingway at his typewriter in the jungle, or Woody Allen in his New York apartment...
Maybe the pharmaceutical companies should turn their attention to finding a drug that could help curb the insatiable urge to breed. ROBERT K. GRONENDYKE Rohnert Park, Calif...
Americans, then, are primed for a religious revival. Yet, Miles noticed on his book tour that they were not willing to believe just because they want the comforts of religion. Instead, these folk felt entitled to doubt God from inside the church or synagogue. Miles calls this new breed of religious unbeliever, "the doubter in the pew." Since Miles revealed himself several months earlier as such a doubter, we should not be too surprised that he champions these doubters as the face of current American religion...