Word: good
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Coach Bill McCurdy is not hiding his optimism about the chances for victory this afternoon. "As far as I'm concerned," he said, "the Brown meet is just to see where our problems are for the meet with Army next week. It should be a good test for our sprinters...
Greeting is a new film that opens with Lyndon Johnson speaking before a labor union audience. He says, "I don't mean to say that you never had it so good, but that's true, isn't it?" O.K. Johnson's criminal insanity aside, his remarks are the ideal preface to a film that shows just how horrible the paranoid lives we lead in the shadow of Vietnam are. The film is about three young New Yorkers, Jon, Paul, and Lloyd--apparently students--and their hassels with the draft and sex. Greeting has a very hip perspective on both; unlike...
Such themes are now fashionable. Just lately, in fact, Vonnegut has become as "in" as a good writer can decently and quietly be. Yet he has been writing, largely unnoticed, for much of the past 20 years. Some of Vonnegut's early books, today reissued and selling briskly, were first published only in paperback, and often went unreviewed by journals that today are noting Vonnegut's popularity, and have begun to celebrate the success of Slaughterhouse-Five (20,000 advance sales, Literary Guild alternate, optioned to the movies...
...Anthony Burgess is the Elizabethan prodigality of creation. Plots, passions and persons hatch in his brooding skull, and it is a matter of wonder only that he has brought so many gaudy fictional chickens home to roost. It seems almost too much that Burgess should also be so good a critic, because the cliché of legend demands that a critic, however good, is by nature a failed creator...
...repeated: "I'm not human when I'm working. It scares me too. It's not good to lose yourself in these things, there's got to be a pay-off somewhere. If Eleanora turns out to be a stinker, I think I'd go into a corner for a year and a half...