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...novel's heft and subject suggest a routine costume epic. But stripped of its ornaments, Voyage is in fact a rather somber study of the human condition. The story's most fully drawn seaman, a seething 50-year-old giant named Harwar, plans to dynamite Car after it reaches the States. In the book's terms, the scheme seems justifiable. Harwar is strong, and though he is an alcoholic, he has been off the sauce for seven months. He stays sober for nearly two weeks more in San Francisco as he waits to wreck the vessel...
Assistant coach George Karras calls Harvard's punt coverage team its most improved area over last year. With just the right combination of linemen for heft and backs for speed, both Columbia and UMass rarely had decent field position. Karras lauds this area, as well as the kickoff return team, as "outstanding, to put it mildly...
Jolly Read. Small wonder then that Now Playing at Canterbury seems designed to stun the carpers into silence. The novel's considerable heft and the titular allusion to Chaucer are signs that High Seriousness is about to be committed. Bourjaily's publisher has pitched in with a prepublication hype apparently keyed to the Second Coming ("one of the most important books Dial will ever publish ... the major work by a major American novelist"). Such hoopla not only raises expectations that Moby-Dick would have trouble satisfying, but it also obscures the nicest thing about Bourjaily's novel...
Then Wertmuller sits down at the typewriter and, she says, "writes so fast -rrrrrrr-that I sound like Gene Krupa." According to Giannini, the scripts that result have the heft of a telephone book. And there are two of them...
...often humiliating seven-week initiation ritual that male cadets have dubbed "Beast Barracks." Its main features: incessant needling from upperclassmen, split-second obedience to their slightest commands and constant criticism of plebes' posture. Though women are still barred from combat, female cadets will have to learn how to heft the 10¼-Ib. M-14 rifle and to fire the 32-Ib. M-60 machine...