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...rose garden in beautiful weather. There was one thing I predicted I would miss-and I was right. That is the switchboard. It was first class. You picked up the phone and asked for someone, and you got him, no matter where. Now you've got to dial for yourself, and the only scar I got was a sore finger from doing my own dialing because I wasn't used...
...pages. Dial...
...carpers into silence. The novel's considerable heft and the titular allusion to Chaucer are signs that High Seriousness is about to be committed. Bourjaily's publisher has pitched in with a prepublication hype apparently keyed to the Second Coming ("one of the most important books Dial will ever publish ... the major work by a major American novelist"). Such hoopla not only raises expectations that Moby-Dick would have trouble satisfying, but it also obscures the nicest thing about Bourjaily's novel. It is not the obligatory cultural headstone for this year: it is a generally jolly...
...have a wide range of stations to turn to on your car radio. For mindless bubble-gum noise, there's WRKO, 680 on the AM dial, and WMEX at 1510. You know the style: abrasive disk jockeys, mind-numbing disco, "free" give aways, etc. For those into classical music, WCRB-AM at 1330 and FM at 102.5 is the place to turn. Boston has also been blessed with an excellent jazz station, WBUR, 90.9 FM, run by students at Boston University. If you're into country and western, WCOP at 1150 AM is probably your best...
Equipment is antiquated and erratic. Phones ring but the connection is dead. At other times three or four simultaneous conversations become scrambled on the same line. Fewer than 60% of all calls go through the first time they are dialed, and callers must often wait three seconds or more between tries for a dial tone...