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...COUNTERLIFE by Philip Roth. In a metaphysical thriller, Nathan Zuckerman, the author's durable doppelganger, once again becomes an instrument for examining the relationship between fact and fiction...
That, however, does not keep him from rhapsodizing about an instrument he describes as an overgrown version of the xylophone, nor from doggedly pursuing his lonely calling. The New Jersey-born Stevens, 34, was first enchanted as a teenager by the distinctive sound of the marimba, the glowing, burnished, unpercussive tone that wafts from the four-plus-octave wooden instrument when it is struck with mallets. "I had never heard such a full and beautiful tone," recalls Stevens, who had been a high school rock drummer. "I could do all the rhythm things, and I also had melody...
...part of a group of American observers who stood in the rubble of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Nitze contemplated the implications of the atom bomb for the postwar world. His conclusion: once the Soviets got their own bomb, they might use it as an instrument of political intimidation and perhaps of war; to deter Soviet aggression, the U.S. would have to build up its own conventional and nuclear military strength. That has been the nub of his message to his countrymen ever since...
...poles. The poles served as extensions of self, with students learning new ways to move with the poles, as well as ways to switch them with partners. The class was "an exercise in concentration and awareness," according to Lodge. "Serban was trying to get us in touch with our instrument. I really learned a lot about myself in that class," he says...
...African Airways Flight 295, bound for Johannesburg from Taipei, was ten minutes away from its scheduled landing on the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius for refueling when the pilot radioed the control tower saying there was smoke in the cabin. The Boeing 747 was immediately cleared for an emergency instrument landing. Said Servan Sing, an air-traffic controller on Mauritius: "After that, we had no contact...