Word: columbus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Perma-Shave. In Columbus, an Ohio penitentiary barber broke regulations by allowing New Prisoner Tom Campbell to keep his mustache-a black, neatly sketched tattoo...
...GOODBYE, COLUMBUS (298 pp.)-Philip Roth-Houghton Mifflin...
...wrenching break from the past has its disasters. The longest and best story, Goodbye, Columbus, is about Jews who have made the ascent from grubby Newark to the green pastures of suburban Short Hills, NJ. Mr. Patimkin is a rich manufacturer of kitchen sinks, "tall, strong, ungrammatical, and a ferocious eater." Son Ronald was an all-state basketball player in high school and a Big Ten star at Ohio State. Daughter Brenda is beautiful, plays crack tennis and goes to Radcliffe. Her suitor, Neil Klugman, tells of his summer affair with Brenda-a daytime round of basketball, pingpong, mile runs...
...Some bilious editorial apologete will darkly ask: 'How does it happen that from the volunteers among our 80,000 military pilots, not one Catholic filtered through the Space Curtain?' 2) Some communion breakfast orator will harangue the Knights: '. . . Columbus et al. were of our faith. Are the Niñas, Pintas and Santa Marias of the cosmic seas to be piloted solely by heretic helmsmen?' 3) A Catholic educator will demand a look-see at the 566 'Who am I?' questions used in screening the fledgling spacemen. Were those questions slanted...
...decision to open Lamont on the three holidays resulted from a recent experiment. On Columbus Day last fall, when Lamont was closed, the House libaries and Widener were so overcrowded that the Committee decided to try opening Lamont on Veterans Day and Washington's Birthday. The Committee concluded that the change should become permanent policy when it was found that students had used Lamont as usual...