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...freestyle: 1) Lyons-Y, 1:48.6; 2) Mussman-Y; 3) Abramson-H (new pool record); 50-yd. freestyle: 1) Clark-Y. 22.1; 2) Austin-Y; 3) Miller-H; Ind. medley: 1) Townsen-Y, 2:03.3; 2) Brandling-Bennett-H (pool record. Old record 2:05.2 by Burgess, Yale, 1961); Diving: 1) Mahoney-H; 2) Whitaker-Y; 3) Lewy...
...with what seems to be mescaline. Thus hyped up, Alex and his hyped-up droogs prowl the town and kick in the keeshkas (tripes) of a lewdie, nearly murder an old shopkeeper for a few polly (pounds) and cancers (cigarettes). They invade the country house of a writer, like Burgess himself, the author of a novel called A Clockwork Orange, and force him to look on while they rape his wife. Alex's sole link with humanity seems to be his love for "Ludwig van," especially the Choral Ninth. While his pee and em (parents) are at work...
Gulliver Unravels. At this point it may be suspected that Burgess is merely putting on a Grand Guignol and that he shares Alex's taste for the existentialist's "gratuitous act" or pointless crime. He is not. Alex's later story is "like tragic" and expounds a bitter moral theorem. He is jailed and selected by the state authorities for Reclamation Treatment. Under drugs and with his eyelids clipped open, he is forced to watch an endless succession of films showing Japanese and Nazi tortures while Beethoven supplies the sound track. Then, conditioned like Pavlov...
This pilgrim's progress of a beatnik Stavrogin is a serious and successful moral essay. Burgess argues quite simply that Alex is more of a man as an evil man than as a good zombie. The clockwork of a mechanical society can never counterfeit the organic vitality of moral choice. Goodness is nothing if evil is not accepted as a possibility...
...Burgess, a member of an old English Catholic family, was a composer and teacher before he became a fulltime writer four years ago. His earlier book, Devil of a State, is a Waugh-like account of a fictional state remarkably like Brunei, where he had served as educational adviser to the Sultan. It won praise for what seemed like the high spirits of a young talent (Burgess was then 42). It gave little hint of the moral seriousness of Orange, where the brassily orchestrated jive of nadsat is used to point up a grave philosophic theme. It is a gruesomely...