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...delver into himself, much in the manner of Proust. Most of his protagonists in this collection are really the same thin, brooding young man. although they are given different names. Clearly they are different ages of a fabricated Updike, the kind of plastic twin brother that Proustians invent when they want to probe their own insides without disturbing the machinery. The trouble is that Author Updike does not really seem interested in exploring time and soul, but merely in finding some minimal core to be crusted with his magnificent words. This dedicated 29-year-old man of letters says very...
...from the University of Minnesota, Bob Gilruth won international recognition in the '40s for his research on the characteristics of aircraft in flight, switched to spacecraft after the Government picked him in 1945 to create an organization to conduct freeflight experiments (and found time along the way to invent the nation's first successful hydrofoil system). He pushed the early work on manned satellites, was named to direct Project Mercury in 1958, set up the vital standards that made last week's successful flight possible-and stuck to them under pressure. Gilruth, who with Glenn received NASA...
...invent a product to satisfy the demand, Rock hires a brilliant, wacky chemist (Jack Kruschen). Doris sneaks in to see the chemist, finds Rock instead, thinks he's the chemist, starts to play up to him. Rock plays along, pretends to be a shy, high-minded scientist who knows plenty about chemistry but has never managed to learn anything about biology. Doris, taken in, offers to teach him. "I'm going to give you confidence," she declares. "Be gentle," Rock says in a small, scared voice...
Munich Was Hell. Here the novel begins to reveal its announced design. This may be reduced to a quasi-theological conundrum. In the absence of God, the English, victorious but emotionally drained, did not think it was necessary to invent a new one; the defeated Germans, humiliated and unreconciled to humiliation, invented, or reinvented, something sinister-the old tribal warrior-deities...
...attempt to invent modern metaphors, Borges said, would not be as effective as using the old ones in different forms. "Something would be lost if the image of an airplane were substituted for one of the older images--for example, that of a butterfly...