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Amis is 52. The subjects of his unkind attentions this time are the genteel aged, people approaching second childhood through their half-past 70s -in short, a group about whom society feels notably ineffectual and guilty...
...half-past seven the lights are lit and the copy box begins its merciless accompaniment to the printer's sharp cry, "Carp-e-e." This box is primarily an invention for conveying manuscript from the desk to the printing room. From then on, the Managing Editor's business is to keep his head, and to see that order and reason prevails in all matters concerning1
...half-past November, and time for Champagne Chuck Stewart to commence preparations for his annual pilgrimage from Golf. Illinois, to the Eastern seaboard. His venerable Spalding putter--the one he used to ace out the guy from Columbia on the seventeenth hole--seven cases of Hamm's Beer his DKI sweatshirt, a wrinkled and somewhat threadbare plain jacket from J. Press York Street. New Haven, and one very blonde Midwestern girl--all of it went into a creaking and rather obscene '64 Thunderbird, the same one he had tried unsuccessfully to unload on this ensign from Harvard when...
...slashing and spectacular. The despair of war and its appalling hardship run through all his early work. For Böll, West Germany's postwar economic boom drowned out the moral voice of his country's guilty conscience. In 1959 he published Billiards at Half-Past Nine, a family chronicle in which the founding father is an architect who builds a famous religious shrine. Near the end of the war, his son, a demolitions expert, blows up the shrine unnecessarily because he is sick of the church's tolerance of the Nazis and disgusted by those...
...proof that the war had not destroyed German literature entirely. In his writing, almost alone in the early postwar years, Boll wrestled with the question of Germany's guilt and corruption. Bitter irony marked his work, but also extraordinary grace and compassion. His subsequent novels, particularly Billiards at Half-Past Nine (1959) and The Clown (1963), enhanced his reputation-along with the much younger Giinter Grass-as Germany's most profoundly committed writer...