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JOHN UPDIKE'S new novel, Couples, describes a modern purgatory, a world from which God has withdrawn, a community without grace or light or love. The book, the story of various adulterous affairs among a group of affluent suburban couples, bears an ironic quotation from Paul Tillich that outlines the novel's thesis. The quotation tells us that when the average citizen feels that "the decisions relating to the life of the society to which he belongs are a matter of fate on which he has no influence," then a mood is created that "is favorable to the resurgence...
...about the withdrawal of God, but in its repulsive vision of the absence of love and grace from human relations. Unfortunately the thesis seems to crush the book's main character, to drain the life from him. Piet is, supposedly, the scapegoat of the couples. And it is the group's judgment that Piet was used by Foxy in order to discard her cold-fish husband. But to see him as a scapegoat is to accept him as will less--and so the author seems to have viewed...
...took three months and the death of Martin Luther King to push them through. They came finally with a faculty vote on April 10. In important ways, the spate of proposals constituted a real break-through in the School's urban posture. Voting to recruit minority group students, the faculty struck down the School's traditional definition of competence, admitting for the first time that race and ghetto experience are important. "The way we've been recruiting minority group students," Sizer said right after the April 10 meeting, "was the wrong...
Disregard of concerned groups is even more acute at today's Faculty meeting. In the first place, the meeting was called and will probably be presided over by President Kirk or Vice President Truman. The striking students have requested admission and a chance to present their position to the Faculty. Their request has been denied. (As this is written, Junior Faculty members have also been denied a voice.) The situation will be discussed without representation by all concerned groups and therefore undemocratically. The Faculty Ad Hoc Committee, with whose representatives we have been meeting, is a split body. They have...
...first demonstrators--in a caravan that left Memphis, Tenn., last week after a memorial service for the Rev. Martin Luther King--will arrive in Washington a week from today. Other caravans are scheduled to join the first group during the five days after its arrival...