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...this year's Olympic schedule. The first aquatic gold medalist was a Hungarian, Alfred Hajos, who won the only two swimming events at Athens in 1896. Both were held in the open sea, amid chilling waves as high as 12 ft. Said Hajos, in one of the franker Olympic victory statements: "My will to live completely overcame my desire to win." This year an American, an Australian and an East German all have a chance to emerge from the magnificent Munich pool as the greatest star of the entire 1972 Games...
...again uses the terse, present tense sentences of Run, the texture of the novel deriving from Rabbit's rapid observations, what he smells, and touches. As the world crowds Rabbit, Updike's precision grows accordingly, down to the news stories Harry sets in type. And, as sexual needs become franker (it is in sex that Rabbit's peers are as sentient as he), Updike's use of stream-of-consciousness is ecstatically successful, Janice's already-famous Molly Bloom jag vitally compresses an expository confession until it is touching in its revelation of character, and sexually provocative...
This undertaking, the Fellows' Program, consisted of bringing fifteen men together for one year at Harvard; a weekly seminar program, combined with unlimited access to the scholarly and intellectual resources of the University, would facilitate, it was hoped, "a franker, more productive discussion of foreign policy problems than would be possible if the same individuals were negotiating across tables for their governments," according to Edward S. Mason, former deputy assistant Secretary of State and another of the principal founders of the Center...
...parents of young drug addicts, suspected or proven, won't profit much from your call for "franker conversation" [Aug. 30]. Have you ever tried to talk to a rebellious teenager? What parents must ask themselves is: "What is missing from my life, that I must use drugs-nicotine or alcohol-myself?" The same ingredients will be missing from the child's life, and he will have every reason to agree with the unspoken message of the parent's example: Life is not worth living without drugs. Parents could ask: Do we love enough...
...appoint favored lawyers to help executors appraise estates for taxes. Appraisers' fees come out of the estate, and are often based on the size of the estate as the appraisers calculate it. As to how appraisers get their jobs, Detroit Probate Judge Ernest C. Boehm could hardly be franker: "Naturally I select men who have helped me in my campaign...