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...tale of the masterful, but neurotic bootlegger manipulating a medicore, but good sheriff into a tragic trap. The Noblest Roman is somewhat ineffectual. But, as satire on the South, on county politics and preachings, and on the art of bootlegging, David Halberstam's first novel is pretty damned witty...
...Halberstam finds a link between ter in his protagonist's paranoiac pride. Because Angelo was Italian, the local burghers never accepted him. With this alienation as a basis, Halberstam makes the bootlegger a proud man who must win completely or completely withdraw, who manifests his hatred for the hypocrites of Corvallis by selling whiskey to them. Pride, however, does not succeed in uniting the two sides of Angelo. We are unsure whether he is a man terribly hurt, striking back violently, or-a sadistic artist taking pains to perform every little criminal chore in exactly the right manner...
Despite the risk involved, Dr. White has encouraged the president's second-term plans. In doing this he may not only be voicing his opinion of the president's health, but lending hope for a normal future to cardiac patients all over the world. M.J. HALBERSTAM...
...Those responsible are Rudolph Kass '52 3L, Frank B. Gilbert '52 2L, R. Johnson Shortlidge '51 3L, Charles E. Zeitlin '53 3L, Philip M. Cronin '53 3L, James M. Storey '53 3L, Bayley F. Mason '51 1 M.P.A., Samuel B. Potter '53 3L, Norman Poser '49 1L, Michael J. Halberstam '53 3M.D...
Finally, Mr. Halberstam appears highly impressed by the actions of Dr. David Minter and Gene Cox. The actions of these men may be seen, according to my interpreation of Mr. Halberstam's position, as pointing the way to a solution of the Southern position. This, I believe, is a fanciful notion. The solution is not so simple and for this reason I leave it to the others who are much better informed. But one thing is certain, and that is, when one is treating social relations as they exist in America today, the world situation should make him stop...