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...circle of friends to be destroyed by adultery and the blight of gratified desire as he did in Couples. All that the author seems to have up his sleeve is a couple of pairs, one of your everyday unbalanced domestic quadrangles, in fact. Jerry loves Sally Mathias-and Ruth Conant, but is married only to Ruth. Sally loves herself and Jerry-but is married to Richard Mathias. Richard, who sees himself as "a teacher of worldliness," once had a brief, slick affair with Ruth...
Readers in search of another adult serial may be forgiven if they switch to Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman before finding out what is really on Updike's mind in Marry Me. Through the evident clash between sense and sympathy, Jerry Conant emerges as one of Updike's ambiguous truth carriers. It is by no coincidence, comrades, that being with Sally symbolically cures both his insomnia and his fear of death. All of Jerry's apparent follies-the reversion to calf love, the dramatic moral posturings, the delusive passion-are meant to be regarded as signs of life...
HOAR, LEONARD--This president of Harvard from 1672-1675 is often said to be the only former president of Harvard without a House named after him. This is a misconception. Although Hoar House never found its way onto the Harvard map, neither did Conant or Pusey Houses, which would have honored two much more illustrious college presidents...
...electricity. Flat rates are a desirable national policy, and support for this proposal would do a great deal to further that goal. The states that take the first steps to establish flat-rate policies may be temporarily penalized by some industrial cutbacks, but a study by Kenneth Arrow, Conant University Professor, reports that the state's economy will eventually be stronger with flat rates...
Kenneth Arrow, Conant University Professor who won a Nobel in 1972, Edward M. Purcell, Gage University Professor who won a Nobel in 1952, and George Wald, Higgins Professor of Biology who won the Nobel in 1967, also endorsed the statement...