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...Rabbit Redux (Rabbit led back), Rabbit, at 36, is still married to Janice. The time is the apogee of the Swinging Sixties. Rawest obscenities have become household words. Adulteries are public events, and man is about to land on the moon-a lifeless body that Updike employs to suggest the deadness of Rabbit's own existence. Janice still has her special little knack for attracting attention. "I'm searching for a valid identity and I suggest you do the same," she tells Rabbit in her best TV talk-show jargon. Her search...
...little new, little substance. The Seven Point Peace Plan, which told Nixon if he set a date for withdrawal of all U.S. military forces from Vietnam, the Vietnamese would agree to a ceasefire and release the POW's, was repeated in part. The Peace Plan, the breakthrough in the lifeless Paris talks that Nixon had chosen to ignore, was now being "put to the people rather than the diplomats," one of the speakers told the rally. Now it was the job of the people to get Nixon to pick up the phone, talk to the Vietnamese and set the date...
...Donleavy writes sad and lonely books. From The Ginger Man to The Beastly Beatitudes of Balthazar B, his fictional worlds seem to spin through an otherwise lifeless universe. They are closed worlds, their boundaries no more distant than the most prominent erectile tissue. Alone, without context or meaning, the flesh...
...only books that can be published are those "helpful to socialism." Even the Czechoslovak Union of Gymnasts has had to pledge to "intensify the political education of all members." It is no wonder that, as TIME Correspondent Burton Pines cabled after a visit to Prague: "The population has become lifeless beyond cynicism...
Compared to meteorites which have been analyzed, the moon is extremely lifeless. Some meteorites have as much as five per cent carbon (more than 200 times the moon quantity) and one-the Murchison meteorite which fell in Australia in 1967-contains substantial amounts of amino acids-some of which are biologically active. However, none of these carbonaceous meteorites show any indications of living organisms...