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...WHAT REALLY makes Fogarty, and consequently the novel is the writing. Perfectly pitched to the man it describes, it matches his every antic with page after page of verbal histrionics. One imagines writing with a harmonica in his mouth and a ball horn plugged into his typewriter. The novel bounces, gyrates and bucks like another coaster car along the precarious edge of the reader's tolerance, never quite falling off. For whenever the author leans too far in the direction of obscenity-which is frequently--he bounces right back with a metaphor or reference to feed any appetite Jackie Kennedy...
...rest of America. In short, given the temper of the times, Clumly seems bound for a caricature pig-of-the-week award, or else a New Centurion's badge for meritorious service. Instead, Gardner pits poor old Clumly against the Sunlight Man, a brilliant existential philosopher, French horn player, gadfly, madman, magician, murderer, idealist and Shavian exponent of Babylonian religion and the new consciousness. But when the smoke and the rhetoric and some cadavers have been cleared away, there stands Clumly (much humbled and wiser) as, by God, some kind of confused, committed, ignorant, rumpled, preposterous champion of Western...
White Ring is a complex of four villages (Lech, Zürs, St. Anton and St. Christoph) linked by lifts. Besides visiting all four, serious skiers can sample everything from the vertiginous Kandahar run to the gentle lower Krieger-horn, plus liberal helpings of Gemütlichkelt. Dances get under way in larger hotels at 5 p.m. A week's stay: around...
...Robert T. Horn, Cornell's associate treasurer, said Thursday that the major reason for selling the stock was that "we thought that it was a very good time to sell from financial standpoint...
...Horn said yesterday, "These aspects may have influenced some of the trustees" votes, but they were not the major issue in the decision...