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...BRENDAN GILL 305 pages. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich...
Thus, in End of an Exceptionally Short Affair, the opening story of this well-wrought collection, Brendan Gill consciously gives his game away. All the relationships he examines are, as his title indicates, loving ones. The term is humanely extended to include not only lovers but also sexual partners, parents and children, employers and employees, and even masters and pets. In each, Gill searches out a truth that is greater than kindness. Usually it turns out to be the painful truth that lies, betrayal, jealousy and sometimes violence not only co-exist with love, but also grow imperceptibly...
...these tales share a kindred urbanity, as might be expected from a longtime contributor of fiction and criticism to The New Yorker. (Gill's present post there is Broadway theater critic.) Many of the characters-clubmen, wealthy matrons, genteel spinsters -could well be the literary grandchildren of Edith Wharton's characters. Gill's narrative voice evokes the kind of man who might be found in one of his own fictional clubs or parlors-a wryly observant uncle or older brother who has moved in wide enough circles to be able to recount a homosexual killing...
...industrial complex is an evil thing does not correspond with reality"--promised that the Corporation would "do everything possible to keep ROTC." In protest, 450 SDS sympathizers met to vote down--three times--an anti-ROTC building occupation. Instead, 300 SDS people marched to Pusey's house--Jessie L. Gill, a militant member who acknowledged last spring that she'd been a CIA infiltrator, pushed a guard aside--and tacked six demands to his door. Three of the demands dealt with ROTC; the other three with university-community relations, an issue to which no one outside the later dominant...
...early January of 1942, in the Gill Laboratory building at Harvard, Louis F. Fieser, Emery Professor of Organic Chemistry Emeritus, perfected a jelled incendiary for military use and gave it the name napalm...