Word: columbus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Letting Go, by Philip Roth. The talented satirist of Goodbye, Columbus has produced a long novel on the troubles of the university young; page by page, it is a delight of flawless dialogue and sour wit, but taken in sum it is another solemn novel about a young man lured by the sirens of Meaninglessness...
...Philip Roth who faces the ordeal. His first book, Goodbye, Columbus, published three years ago when he was 27, won him a National Book Award and justified acclaim as the best American short storyist to appear since Salinger. It was a sour, funny look at Jewish life in the U.S., and the only doubt critics had was whether an author capable of such superb genre-painting would ever trouble himself to attempt the bigger (and presumably more important) picture...
Disturbing Tone. But these were minor matters compared to another problem: the fuel tank feeding the fly-by-wire and the automatic control systems was only 45% full. Flight Director Christopher Columbus Kraft ordered Carpenter to start flying the capsule by the manual control system, which uses a separate fuel tank. As Carpenter approached California, Kraft decided that there was still enough fuel for a third orbit. But he told Astronaut Shepard at the microphone in the tracking station at Point Arguello: "We still want to emphasize to him to limit his auto fuel usage...
...WALTERS Columbus, Ohio...
...that their return tickets to England on June 20 would still be good. Once again in the U.S., the Woods were escorted aboard an American Airlines flight for Texas. Deplaning in Corpus Christi at last, Charlie Wood paused to reflect on his 12,000-mile junket, murmured: "Worse than Columbus...