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...Paul, Joseph J. Scafidi, Shirley Barden Zimmerman (Deputies); Trang Ba Chuong, Theresa Kelliher, Suzi Romanik, L. Rufino- Armstrong, Lee R. Sparks (Supervisors); Ted Alban, Frances Bander, Robert L. Becker, Minda Bikman, Robert Braine, Bruce Christopher Carr, Silvia Castaeda Contreras, Barbara Collier, Kenneth Collura, Barbara Dudley Davis, Julia Van Buren Dickey, Osmar Escalona, Dora Fairchild, Evelyn Hannon, Garry Hearne, Nora Jupiter, Judith Kales, Sharon Kapnick, Kevin Kelly, Claire Knopf, Agustin Lamboy, Gyavira Lasana, Jeannine Laverty, Marcia L. Love, Janet L. Lugo, Peter J. McGullam, Sandra Maupin, Anna F. Monardo, Peter K. Niceberg, Linda Parker, Maria A. Paul, Lois Rubenstein, Judy Sandra...
ALNILAM, James Dickey -- THE BOYS OF WINTER, Wilfrid Sheed -- 50, Avery Corman MORE DIE OF HEARTBREAK, Saul Bellow POSTCARDS FROM THE EDGE, Carrie Fisher -- YOU MUST REMEMBER THIS, Joyce Carol Oates...
...truth about the young man emerges slowly and is hefty with mythological implication. Joel was a gifted student pilot who, like Icarus, got too cocky. In the Dickey version, the cadet flies too close to a raging brush fire and loses control of his plane in the hot turbulence. A farmer pulls him from the wreckage, but while he goes to get help Joel disappears, leaving only his broken goggles and a piece of zipper torn from his boot...
...power of negative thinking, or, as one Alnilamist puts it, "Everything will be simple: simple and deep. There won't be anything else; only nihilism and music." Compared with the allusive qualities of the book, such statements can seem as obvious as a Goodyear blimp. But they cannot overshadow Dickey's talent for mating small details, his audacious lyric power and technical risks. At times he splits the page into two columns, the left registering the impressions of Cahill, the right a simultaneous visual sighting of events...
Alnilam also contains impelling descriptions of aerial combat, though we learn later the stories are probably lies. Significantly, the accusation cannot lessen the imaginativeness of the narration. It is one of Dickey's better stunts: to portray the artist as an inspired liar who can convince us that boats float on grass and a book...