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Permutations. The fact is that beneath this suburban idyl, Updike's couples are caught up in a black mass of community sex. Their Puritan gods have retreated to unawesome, half-deserted churches, where beaten clergymen, sizing up the businessman congregations, croak about an improbable Christ who "offers us present security, four-and-a-half percent compounded every quarter." The Biblical woman accused of adultery would be safe in Tarbox; here no stones are thrown, only envious glances. With no heat left in the Protestant American crucible, the comfortable couples of Tarbox have reached out for another kind of warmth...
...politics, poetry, architecture, painting, interior design, cabinetry, fabrics-would be needed to catalogue his achievements. The aim of his life was to restore craftsmanship and beauty to a deprived industrial working class. He was concerned with the deep discrepancy between the dark satanic mills of industrial England and the idyl (real or imagined) of rural life hedged in tradition. It is a discrepancy still known in 20th century America, and it makes Morris' life relevant reading today...
...antiquity worship, and to satirize the manners and morals of the Second Empire under Napoleon III. His fiddle-playing Orpheus is glad to be rid of the unfaithful Eurydice until a character called Public Opinion forces him to complain to Jupiter. The gods, bored with ambrosia and the Olympian idyl, squabble rebelliously; and Jupiter, when he descends to the underworld to investigate Orpheus' complaint, is so taken with Eurydice that he arranges the plot in order to take her away from Orpheus...
...THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIES (CBS, 9-11 p.m.). Shirley Booth and Robert Ryan in About Mrs. Leslie (1954), a story of two people who meet during World War II and spend a holiday together in California. Every year thereafter the idyl is repeated, and each year he vanishes until the next...
...idyl has ended. Scandalized by the disclosure that needy Illinois athletes had received "walking-around money" from an alumni-financed slush fund, the Big Ten's athletic directors voted last month to expel Illinois from the conference-unless the university fired Elliott as well as Basketball Coach Harry Combes and his assistant Howard Braun. Last week Illinois appealed the decision to the Big Ten board of faculty representatives, and got turned down cold...