Word: franked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After reading Frank Trippett's anti-air conditioning Essay [Aug. 13], I suggest that he be employed as a correspondent permanently assigned to the equator...
...Frank Trippett's analogies to France, Germany and Japan are poor choices. Most of the U.S. lies south of much of Europe in a climate not always amenable to human endeavors. The choice is not cool comfort vs. "sweatshops"; it is gross national production vs. noonday siesta...
...Ghost Writer promises the incredible with the suggestion that Anne Frank is alive and working at Harvard's library. But Roth steps back from the inviting brink of fantasy. He retreats, in fact, to the drab reality of the 1950s, the time of his own spectacular debut as the author of Goodbye, Columbus. The new book retains the look, if not the actual furniture, of autobiography. Goodbye, Columbus is called Higher Education; its author is Nathan Zuckerman who, like Roth, was raised in a middle-class Jewish section of Newark. His story is based on a family embarrassment...
...other competitor is Amy Bellette, a young researcher sent by Harvard to compile Lonoff's papers. She wants to take him to Italy for a life of truth and beauty. Nathan would like to go himself, because he is perversely excited by Amy's resemblance to Anne Frank. He imagines a lengthy scenario in which Anne survives Hitler's extermination camps to become Miss Bellette, who reasons that if she were known to be alive, her Diary would be read merely as a teen-age adventure story...
...going home with news for his mother. "I met a marvelous young woman while I was up in New England. I love her and she loves me. We are going to be married." "Married? But so fast? Nathan, is she Jewish?" "Yes, she is." "But who is she?" "Anne Frank...