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Updike is an American moralist, analyzing the limits of living in terms of the social thwarting of human potential and dreams. Rabbit was a religious hero in '59; his faith was ruthlessly transcendent. Rabbit's talks with Reverend Eccles drew out his "theology." Eccles talked of Hell "as separation from...
But Rabbit couldn't ponder the problem, only rebound emotionally off surrounding situations. He expressed himself through actions, which, in the clogged Brewer-Mt. Judge landscape, made him incomprehensible to more interiorized residents. His mistress never quite understood why Rabbit asked for a blow-job, or Mrs. Eccles why he...
Coal mines have been killing miners at a rate that works out to an average of 100 per month for the past 100 years. Sometimes they die in explosions and fire like the Mannington disaster of 1968 that killed 78 (and Monongah, 1907. 307 dead: Centralia. 1947. 111 dead: West...
My Side of the Mountain, Radnitz claims, is intended for the whole family. But its main appeal is obviously to the intelligent preteenager interested in natural history. Sam (Teddy Eccles) is a Canadian youth who decides that four walls and two parents are too confining. With his pet raccoon Gus...
One reason for Utah's success is stable management. Seven of the company's twelve directors are descendants of the industrious builders and bankers who founded the company in Ogden, Utah. Among the seven are Littlefield and onetime Federal Reserve Chairman Marriner S. Eccles, who has been Utah...