Word: lifeguard
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Behind the scenes moves the hotel staff of 500, including 17 bellboys available, night and day, to carry messages across the city by hand, 24 telephone operators, two tennis pros, and one fulltime lifeguard, all dedicated to the proposition that guests are people with names, not just keys. Explains Owner Silberstein: "Every guest wants to be recognized. The ego of man is the same throughout the world. We have to cater to the whims of our guests...
...sense of language is sure, and nowhere more evident than in one of his last stories, "Lifeguard." The whole story is an extended metaphor about a divinity student who abandons theology each summer to work as a lifeguard. Updike articulately examines the strange congruence of "texts of the flesh" and those of the mind. At every point, the lifeguard's vision--and the author's--is unique. "Each morning," says the guard, "as I mount into my chair, my athletic and youthfully fuzzy toes expertly gripping the slats that make a ladder, it is as if I am climbing into...
...many ways, the attitude of the lifeguard is close to Updike himself. The lifeguard performs the function of a sense organ; he is paid to observe closely the world around him. Updike, too, is concerned with the sensory experience. This is the basis for in details. But for Updike not enough to live life; one must understand the significance of individual experience...
...first major tour of the steamy Indian hinterland, the U.S.'s new high-pocketed, highbrowed Ambassador John Kenneth Galbraith and 'his wife Catherine cooled off at surf-raked Puri on the Bay of Bengal. Though they had followed the local practice of hiring a personal lifeguard against the treacherous undertow, the ambassador's lady still barely went near the water...
...foreman at an Oldsmobile forge plant in Lansing, Petrie sagged below A only twice in high school (B's in gym and English literature) "because I didn't work." At M.S.U., where he eased the financial pinch by living at home and working summers as a lifeguard, he found time for swimming, handball and bottle-ball as well as math. Awarded hefty grants for undergraduate research by the National Science Foundation, Petrie now has a $3,200-a-year N.S.F. fellowship for graduate work at Princeton. The future worries him: "Communism seems to be creeping...