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...that the author has somewhat lazily not bothered to invent his own central figure? But the burden of the novel is that Luke Fairchild is a monster of charm and talent, adulated for the purity of his counterculture protest. And, as Spencer tells it, he abandons his pregnant girlfriend Esther Rothschild when he hits the big time, and then meanly refuses to acknowledge the resulting child Billy as his own, or to peel off any loot for child support. The story is told by Billy, who, as a teenager and then as an adult, skulks about the edges of Luke...
...there a real-life counterpart for the lovely, open-hearted Esther, pictured arm-in-arm with Luke on that early album cover? Does the self-pitying, rather irritating Billy really exist? Don't know, don't care, though if Esther and Billy are pure invention, what is the point of the Dylan caricature? These are questions that readers will ask, and try to answer. But they get in the way of the novel, which, of course, has done a thorough job of getting...
With his own hat size and voice print instead of Dylan's, Luke could have been a memorable main character-as-messiah, for whom genius, as Esther tells Billy, is its own excuse. As things are, the author cobbles up convincing song lyrics and catches the feel of things at the fringes of a big concert tour...
...Center will host the Second International Conference on Internet and Society in May to address issues of security, property and quality. Renowned thinkers in the field, such as Scott G. McNealy and Esther Dyson, '71, will be present...
...very grateful to The Crimson for acknowledging Professor Epp's tremendous achievement (incidentally, 30 percent of those junior professors put forward for tenure are actually made offers; only around 10 percent are even put forward). I would, however, have appreciated your reporting my own comments more carefully. ESTHER WHITEFIELD...