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...first was a Cadet fumble which the Sooners recovered on the Army 38 yard line halfway through the first period. The Harvard offense, led by part-time Varsity quarterback Milt Holt, moved slowly ahead on the ground, and finally scored on a one yard plunge by junior Roger Hoefer...
...McGovern's youthful volunteers are practicing the same Dale Carnegie tactics. Some of those who are not are getting themselves set straight. In Wisconsin, for example, McGovern headquarters mailed out instructions to some 70 state schools and universities. "Guys who canvass," said the memo, "should try to look halfway decent. Every freak must have at least a pair of slacks and a shirt. Similar for chicks. We have to play the game to at least some extent to win, and an ill-dressed freak might arouse the straighter qualities of some residents. So please, some appropriate clothes...
...There are stories within stories within digressions, flights back and forth through time and a complicated diagram of the heroic cycle. There are pauses in mid-text for the narrator to comment impatiently on the unsatisfactory progress of the narrative. Heroes from other Barth novels make cameo appearances, and halfway through Bellerophoniad, Barth presents an autobiographical account of his novelistic career. For the confused reader, he obligingly provides Robert Graves's summary of the details of the Bellerophon myth...
...action. Utilizing teach-ins, intelligible leaflets and innovative tactics, they explained Portugal's position in Angola, Gulf's relationship to Portugal, and Harvard's connection with Gulf. They effectively demonstrated what initially seemed highly improbable--how Harvard's divestiture of Gulf stock would aid people fighting for their freedom halfway around the globe. They laid out a string of causes and effects and sold it to the Harvard community...
...prospects for happiness do not seem bright. He dreams of an impossible Japan, "halfway between then and now, a combination of prewar Japan without its militarism and postwar Japan without its kogai." In a westernized Japan, he is unlikely to find the kind of wife he is seeking. Though he returned to Japan a hero, other glamorous figures (the Olympic gymnasts, among others) have since dethroned him. Worst of all, his neighbors have begun to cool toward him. Explains one friend: "Quite a few people have been wondering aloud why he didn't commit hara-kiri like a good...