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SOME PEOPLE, PLACES, & THINGS THAT WILL NOT APPEAR IN MY NEXT NOVEL (175 pp.)-John Cheever-Harper...
About six months ago, Author John (The Wapshot Chronicle) Cheever announced publicly that "life in the U.S. in 1960 is hell." Since hell is a private estate, it might be supposed that he could have been speaking merely for himself. But his scores of short stories and now this book of new ones prove plainly, of course, that he was speaking as well for his not-so-fictional characters. The hell he has staked out for them is by now unmistakably Cheever country (nice house, nice income, nice wife, nice kids, all of it tasting of despair and a thick...
Some People, Places, & Things That Will Not Appear in My Next Novel could easily turn out to be a misnomer. If the title is accurate, it would be good news, for Author Cheever is in danger of getting bogged down in his talent-lined rut. He promises in the future to drop "all lushes," but The Scarlet Moving Van is the story of the handsome All-America football star who is so frightened by life that he turns to the jug and throws away the stopper. His Brimmer is another charming lush whose great wastes of emptiness can be filled...
...When the Cheever report is completed this summer, the University will have a better idea what the impact of Federal money has been on it. Presumably the report will clarify the distinction between "enough" and "too much" Federal aid. It should not be forgotten, though, that Harvard's solutions to the questions Federal money raises are unique and even idiosyncratic. Few other universities can duplicate the Program for Harvard Medicine. For many schools, the need for Federal money extends to teachers' salaries, too. Thus, while Harvard is rightly using its name and prestige to free itself as much as possible...
...Cheever expects to complete the study he is now making of the impact of Federal funds on the University by early summer...