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...JOSEPH HELLER has been on an odyssey for the last 13 years. Since Catch-22 was published in 1961 he has been on a voyage through uncharted waters far from the Mediterranean island of Pianosa, the setting for his World War II novel. His voyage in Something Happened takes him through the psyche of one man, Robert Slocum. And like Ulysses, sleeping under a pile of leaves, like an ember buried beneath ashes, a small seed of light from his previous work has survived. The bright, animated fires of Catch-22 have died down, but now a new fire...
...witch's brew. He knows only dimly of that "something" which makes him fearful, disgusting, and self-loathing. Superficially, he maintains a calm indifference and manipulative diplomacy. He is so much like a chameleon that he acquires the characteristics of persons he's dealing with, including a stutter. For Heller, he is the conglomerate image of corporate man in America, at once the symbol of upward and downward mobility. "I ascend," he says, "like a Condor, while falling to pieces...
Slocum's family, too, suffers from the same kind of egocentric personalities--nothing they do is valuable or redeeming, except perhaps Slocum's nine-year-old son--who, like his sixteen-year-old sister and mother, goes unnamed. Heller portrays their constant bickering, their petty desires, and all the time he is weaving a less penetrable allegory for the American way of life...
Despite the experts' grim predictions, the tone of the meeting was generally convivial. In a flight of hyperbole, Ford told the group that if it succeeded in finding answers to inflation, "there will be statues of each of you in every city park throughout the U.S." Democrat Walter Heller remarked: "It is refreshing to be in a White House open to a little laughter again, and to dissent...
...varsity lightweight eight of stroke Ned Reynolds, Todd Howard, Leif Soderberg, Mac Heller, Peter Huntsman, Bob Leahey, Paul McKenna, John Kiger, and cox Chris Ross journeyed to England to compete in the Thames Cup competition at the Henley Regatta. The lights squeezed through their preliminary rounds, but lost in the finals...