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...those with reservations was the author's mother. Says Frances Irving: "There are parts of Garp that are too explicit for me." Literary heroes like T.S. Garp and John Berry of Hotel New Hampshire challenge social dogmas and traditional sexual roles. Although they sleep with women and could flatten most opponents, Garp and Berry are mother-men. They nurture and protect an extended family of offspring with the tenacity of a she-bear...
...modest 1.1% real increase that was anticipated in March, the Administration now projects a more respectable 2.6%. Much of the improvement is a result of robust expansion in the first quarter, when business grew at an annual rate of 8.6%. Many economists fear that prevailing high interest rates may flatten the economy for almost the rest of the year...
...still undefeated matmen began their afternoon with a 33-6 triumph over the Coast Guardsmen and then went on to silence Lowell, 24-11, and to flatten a weak MIT team...
...single-issue politics, the ambitious are careful to see that they do not get burned. Says NBC-TV's Edwin Newman: "Advertising, public relations and polling techniques create attitudes that are designed to appeal to a large number of people. These attitudes tend to flatten out a speech." Political speeches may soon be written by computers: pretested paragraphs are tried out on people for reactions, then fed into a computer along with the speaker's philosophy, and out comes a speech. Audiences now wince wearily at the cute and canned self-deprecatory jokes that federal bureaucrats invariably tell...
While growing up in Missouri, Wilson used to try to flatten dollar bills under his pillow before taking them off to the bank. With that same tightfisted search for no-wrinkles efficiency, he has engineered Boeing's success...