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...those midsummer Sundays when everyone sits around saying, " 'I drank too much last night.' " So begins John Cheever's short story The Swimmer and this picture based...
...claimed for his own since he made his first appearance as a New Yorker short-story writer 15 years ago. In his own words, he is "kind of elegiacally concerned with the Protestant middle class." Among modern American writers, only John Cheever shares Updike's sense of accumulated loss, his feeling that the national past contained a wholeness and an essential goodness that have now evaporated. Even John O'Hara, an acknowledged social historian, makes no plea for the special virtues of the past. For other novelists, the present may be a disaster, but there is no indication...
...members of the committee are Dr. Elkan R. Blout, Harkness Professor of Biological Chemistry; Dr. F. Sargent Cheever, dean of the medical school of the University of Pittsburgh; Dr. Leonard Cronkhite, lecturer on Preventive Medicine; Dr. James P. Dixon, president of Antioch College; Dr. Seymour Kreshover, director of the National Institute of Dental Research; Dr. John B. MacDonald, former president of the University of British Columbia; Dr. Joseph Volker, dean of the Medical Center of the University of Alabama; and Dr. Joseph T. Wearn, retired dean of the medical school at Western Research University...
...fours-with-cox which lost in the Navy Cup competition included cox Brian Sullivan, Gib Vincent, Mike Ridedski, and Roger Cheever. They lost to the Vesper, NYAC, and Cornell oarsmen...
...Ambassador's Report, Merriman Smith's Thank You, Mr. President, William Attwood's The Reds and The Blacks, Theodore Sorensen's Kennedy and William Manchester's The Death of a President. Only as a sideline does Thomas edit a few novelists, including John Cheever. As he sees it, "there's something romantic about people dedicated to public service...