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With sly, leisurely humor, Novelist Amado records the stir made in Ilhéus as the fitful-sometimes barely perceptible -winds of progress blow. There is nothing that is not affected by modernism. Everyone is full of admiration when Colonel Jesuino Mendonga, after discovering his wife and his dentist in conversation (he in the nude, she wearing only a pair of long black stockings), shoots both of them. The colonel's conduct was impeccable under the ancient code for settling marital differences, and even liberals in Ilhéus are shocked when a court finds him guilty and sentences...
...stage, Captain Macheath and Mrs. Peachum can scream bitter words to sneering music; but in the audience a dentist will tap his feet and hum along gaily. "This is as good as My Fair Lady," he whispers to his plump wife. "It's better," she answers; "it's more modern...
...Buzz") Kuehn, 42, a Milwaukee cold-storage businessman, a former G.O.P. state chairman and a longtime backer of Senator Joe McCarthy. During this year's campaign, Kuehn said he would be proud to be called "Barry Goldwater Junior." Back in July, Dr. Theodore L. Taylor, 32, a Madison dentist and head of the local Birch chapter, gave his personal endorsement to Kuehn. Kuehn seemed pleased: "I will accept the support of any Wisconsin voter who thinks I am the best qualified candidate for Governor...
...accomplished hypnotist, Betsy Drake put Cary to sleep at various times and caused him to stop smoking and drinking. Together they explored Oriental religions, transcendentalism, mysticism and yoga. Grant claims that through her he learned how to put one side of his jaw to sleep when a dentist happened to be drilling there. For 3½ years they have been intimately estranged, living apart, dating each other frequently, taking trips together. Once at a Broadway show, Gary saw her come in with another man. "There's my wife," he said to his own companion. "Isn't she beautiful...
...Moral Flounderer. Gabe Wallach is the novel's hero and its most troublesome shortcoming. The son of a well-to-do New York dentist, Gabe is an intelligent, joyless, bored young man who is a scholar more by default than vocation. When the reader first sees him, he is a graduate student at the University of Iowa (his most irksome course is, naturally, Anglo-Saxon-a sly touch of the kind Roth is best at). There Gabe meets Paul and Libby Herz, a morose young couple living in a water-stained barracks apartment furnished chiefly with smudged paper-ungraded...