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Thomas J. Babe, Jr. '63 will read an act of his new play, "Peterkins," this afternoon at 4:30 p.m. in the Lamont Forum Room. G. Carter Wilson '63 will also present an excerpt from his novel, "She fought the Good Fight," at the third in a series of undergraduate readings...
Raise High is the account of Seymour's wartime wedding day, told as a memory by Buddy, complete with a treasured excerpt from his brother's diary. The prevalent key of the story is dullness and confusion, for the constant use of asides and unfamiliar terminology snows under the genuinely touching scene of Buddy's adventures in a limousine with a selection of the Salinger out-group...
...slighted. Mark Mirsky seems to be much more at home writing Singer than ever he was last year when writing Malamud; his "Muzzel, the Drunk of Hoamer Street" is a smooth and quite evocative little sketch and stands on its own very well, even though it is but an excerpt from his "novel in progress," The Tales of Blue Hill Avenue...
...speaking his own mind. He has already written America the Vincible, a turgid criticism of Eisenhower's foreign policy; now he is prepared to take another public swipe at his old boss with a new book, Eisenhower: A Political Memoir, to be published next spring. In an excerpt in the current issue of Look, Ike emerges as a testy and shallow ex-general, contemptuous of Adlai Stevenson ("that monkey"), dubious of Richard Nixon ("I just haven't honestly been able to believe that he is presidential timber"). Not surprisingly, Hughes is also leaving his former publishers. Doubleday...
...February issue, for instance, has a long article on Nikolai Mamai, Hero of Socialist Labor, who boosted coal production by inspiring his fellow miners to compete for record outputs. The excerpt below is typical...