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...honest movie about college life. From Good News to Love Story, from Campus Confidential to The Paper Chase, Hollywood has chosen to regard the campus as a haven for earnest young lovers, gung-ho jocks, inspirational professors and tortured class losers. Animal House, a riotous farce set at fictional Faber College in 1962, presents quite another picture. The film's so-called animals-the inhabitants of Faber's most disreputable fraternity house-are a filthy, outrageous lot. They guzzle and spit beer, drive motorcycles indoors, dump Fizzies in the school swimming pool, pile up 1.2 grade-point averages...
...uptight small college in 1962, and all Lampoon targets get theirs--sex, immature (but funny) pranks, assholes, preppies, and callow youth. The story line, if there is one, revolves around the frantic partying and rowdiness of the frat, Delta, and the efforts of a ruthless college dean (of Faber College, whose motto is "Knowledge is Good") and a "respectable"--frat stuffed full of putz preppies to close Delta down for good. Needless to say, much mayhem ensues, and the audience is pretty much guaranteed a good time...
...fact, when it comes to the highly volatile racial issue, children are much sought after, if not particularly outgoing, interview subjects. When Nancy Faber talked to several nine-and ten-year-olds in San Francisco, she found them "sensibly unexcited about discussing such delicate subjects as school integration and busing." From Pasadena to the slums of East Harlem, other correspondents reported on varying school conditions and community moods. In Boston, Philip Taubman discovered that "children aren't really interested in all the rhetoric. If they have to ride a bus, they just want to make sure that they...
...four pitchers for the Chicago White Sox-Claude Williams, Edward Cicotte, Urban Faber and Richard Kerr-won 20 or more games apiece. Williams and Cicotte were later implicated in what came to be known as the 1919 Black Sox scandal, which was not uncovered until after the 1920 Series...
...mythic story into the 20th century has left the author with too little chance to flesh out his hero. Burgess is better remembered for characters like Enderby -decent, quirky men weathering the infirmities of the body and the indignities of the soul with awkward gallantry. By contrast, Miles Faber is a disappointment -nutty, knowledgeable, but finally a shadow. Still, the book shows Burgess's comic technique at its most wizardly, and that is enough to make MF one of the season's funnier novels...