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...Tepid Street Cleaner. The current gloom began with Molloy, first of a trilogy of novels (Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable) written in French and published in France between 1951 and 1953. In Molloy, published in the U.S. last year, the hero is a cripple who tries to cross a forest to get home to his mother and has some scabrous sexual encounters en route. Malone is headed for a more universal home, the grave. Indeed, all that can be said with certainty about the plot of Malone Dies is that Malone does...
...Louis Jefferson National Expansion Memorial in 1948. The elder Saarinen submitted a formal monumental design; Eero's entry was an audacious, 590-ft. stainless-steel arch that looked like a giant, glistening croquet wicket-which he had conceived while bending a wire and wool pipe cleaner. A telegram announced Eliel the winner. The family broke out the traditional champagne to celebrate...
...Truth or Consequences last week brought this hoary Greek joke up to date with a sequence about a vacuum-cleaner salesman who innocently calls on a housewife, is interrupted in mid-spiel by the arrival of the husband, and almost instantly finds himself in the center of a family quarrel. The irate husband throws his wife onto a sofa, then knocks her down against a table; she retaliates by belting him with a vase and breaking a chair over his head. While the salesman, cowering over his vacuum-cleaner attachments, quavers: "You shouldn't do that!" husband and wife...
Though Noblesse Oblige is obviously the definitive work on the subject, the controversy really began with a learned paper, published in Helsinki by Philologist Alan S. C. Ross of the University of Birmingham. "Today," said Ross, "a member of the upper class is, for instance, not necessarily better educated, cleaner or richer than someone not of this class...
...What they're really after is a street cleaner who's a Greek scholar or something like that. So I told them about my brother and said we could answer together. Then I swept my arms wide and said we'd take on all the categories." Bill confesses: "My brother is brighter than I am, and he didn't think my little idea was as smart as I did. But a few days later they called. There was no advance preparation at all. They just stuck us out there on the show...