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...shorter fragments are all of the typical "no" piece of his novels, featuring the nameless "I" character-or noncharacter. In one story, a decrepit figure, whose hat covers a pustule on top of his skull, is expelled from his boardinghouse and wanders until he comes to rest in a cab in a stable. In another story, a tortured soul gradually constructs his own coffin by hammering boards across the top of an abandoned rowboat...
...cover the town with a cynical gallantry and inverse snobbery typical of the big-city provincial. This prevailing tone accounts for both the strengths and weaknesses of the book. It is authentic-mirroring the New Yorker's romance with artistic success and mechanical failure, Jewishness, the infallibility of cab drivers and elevator men, the superiority of Manhattan parks, ghettos and delicatessens. Tom Wolfe, a Yale Ph. D. in American Studies who has become a kind of Boswell of hip New York, contributes a scathing parody of a stranger's introduction to the city; a poet, George Dickerson, produces...
Part of that prosperity is due to the Viet Nam war. Ferrying troops and equipment for the Pentagon accounts for 62% of the supplementals' revenues. A big lift, however, comes from the growing travel market. Last year the CAB-to the consternation of the trunk airlines-empowered the supplementals to charter their planes to travel agents for all-expense "inclusive tours" both inside and outside...
When the fighting erupted, U.S. officialdom in the Middle East carried out a mini-exodus worthy of a latter-day Moses. In the face of the most widespread and violent anti-American outbursts in history, more than 20,000 U.S. civilians fled the area by cab and cattle boat, cruise ship and jetliner. About 35,000 Americans-mostly oil-company employees, military personnel and foreign service officers-remained behind, but U.S. consulates and embassies were ready to evacuate them as well should Arab hysteria continue to rise...
Clear as Neon. There were other kinds of gifts, too. A Manhattan cab driver marched into the headquarters of the Jewish Agency for Israel with two sturdy youths, announcing: "I have no money to give you, but I'll give you my sons." More than 8,000 young Americans volunteered to go to Israel, and 200 of them managed to get in before the U.S. State Department barred travel to the area. They were expected to help with the harvest that is due soon and to fill in for men at the front. Many Americans already in Israel fled...