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...Rabbit Redux (redux: Latin, "led back") we find that the course of a decade hasn't brought him any closer to what he wanted. It has, in fact, taken him down a peg. Angstrom is back in Brewer, working with his father as a linotyper (a fading breed...) in a print shop. There are, of course, enormous differences, in Rabbit and family, in Brewer, and in Updike's own attitudes and approaches...
...probation at the time, after several bouts with the law. The Morins, both 49, are part of a new breed of do-gooders in Minnesota's Hennepin County: volunteer probation officers in the department of court services. They joined the first class of volunteers in February 1970 and are probably its most distinguished graduates; they have already been nominated for the National Volunteer Award for their work. Says Ira Schwartz, director of the Hennepin County program: "If the people with master's degrees who come to us had their intuitive skills, we'd be a lot further...
...substitute pesticides are produced and made easily available," made me wonder what would happen if insecticides worked too well. Hindsight might reveal that an insect species, after the last of its kind had been killed, was valuable or even necessary for some ecological function. What would we do then? Breed another similar species...
Celebrated by rock balladeers and the gods and goddesses of the California youth culture, the sleek but mighty sports cars with high-powered engines were the knights templar of the American highway in the early 1960s. Inspired by the sports car craze, Detroit automakers created a new breed of small, racy, relatively inexpensive "sports compact" cars for young and old alike. The first of the new group, the Ford Mustang, made a fast breakaway in 1964. It was rapidly followed by competing cars whose names evoked feelings of adventure and even danger: Plymouth's Barracuda, Chevrolet's Camaro...
However, faith in the future in no way invalidates Guralnick's devotion to one chapter in history. We are indebted to him and the other members of the Boston Blues Society for their efforts to bring us surviving members of a dying breed of bluesmen. They brought Johnny Shines to the Harvard Freshman Union recently, and on Sunday, December 12, they're bringing Hound Dog Taylor to the Winthrop House Dining Room. If you are a blues lover, you will be there. If you are merely flirting with the blues, but a little shy, Feel Like Going Home will point...