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...Poole was the Findlay, Ohio, housewife who wrote T.S. Garp to complain that his books made fun of people's troubles. Win Berry's son John will receive no such mail. He lives almost entirely in his family. His preparation for life is largely symbolic; as a jogger and weight lifter, he has the strength and endurance to repel invaders and shoulder his relatives' burdens. Characteristically, he marries the most imaginatively troubled woman in the book, a rape victim who spends many angry years in a bear suit as a bouncer at a brothel...
...British Establishment, including Lord Napier, the private secretary to Princess Margaret, and Major Sir Francis Legh, equerry to the Queen Mother. Snapped one angry underwriter: "It's like getting into real trouble and saying to your parents, 'Why did you let me do it?' " Added Ian Findlay, the former chairman of Lloyd's: "There is today a feeling of unease among insurers that the principle of good faith is being steadily eroded...
Instead, she adopts the position that students today are being lured to college campuses by promotion that wildly misrepresents what they should expect out of the education itself. She deplores current marketing strategies such as the "Fly Adelphi" campaign, or Findlay College's "It's great to be a big fish in a small college" recruitment package, featuring Charley the Tuna. College marketting spawns pseudo-events like meetings on curriculum reform, which, she feels, are "principally planned, planted or excited for the purpose of being reported or reproduced...The harsh truth is that all this activity is generally a waste...
...Reagan's with virtually every campaign appearance. For example, last week in Ohio the President added to his repertory of feckless rhetorical mannerisms by constantly referring to himself in the third person?"I'm confident that President Jerry Ford can be elected." Commented a telephone company executive in Findlay, Ohio: "He sounds like he's delivering a 'man who' nominating speech for somebody else...
Directed by HOWARD ALK and SEATON FINDLAY...