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...COBWEB (369 pp.)-William Gibson-Knopf...
...publishers of The Cobweb have sent it into the world with a stout advertising and promotion budget and the advance assurance to bookdealers that it is "an absorbing, down-to-earth novel about real people responding to the real stuff of everyday human experience." The book may sell well, at that. A first novel by Massachusetts' William Gibson, it sticks to the oldest rule in soap opera: it gets its characters in trouble and keeps them there...
...many real-life parents, whether the charge is false or well-founded. They are fortunate if they can get worthwhile help from family or friends or even from their ministers. One useful thing they can do is to take the boy to a psychiatrist, where, first of all, such cobweb words as "hereditary," "congenital" and "hopeless" should be swept from their minds...
...towers, painted red & white, crown each of the two mountain tops. Between them in the valley swoop cables 9,000 ft. long. On the valley floor are 23 other towers, some of them 145 ft. tall, and a huge copper grounding system is now being laid under the cobweb of cables...
...Wild Duck (by Henrik Ibsen) opened the annual winter season at Manhattan's City Center. It also opened the door to a musty attic. Under the dust and cobwebs that shroud Ibsen's classic, there may still lie something vital. But far from uncovering it, the present production treasures every cobweb...