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...Berkeley team, headed by Dr. Michael Marmot, conducted a ten-year study of some 4,000 Japanese men living in the San Francisco area, investigating their background and lifestyle as well as their diet, cholesterol levels, smoking habits and other factors usually associated with heart disease. When the data were finally analyzed, it became apparent that the Japanese who cling to their traditional lifestyles, which defuse tension by emphasizing acceptance of the individual's place in both family and society, fare well. Even those who indulge in high-fat diets suffer fewer coronaries than their American counterparts. But those...
...about John Fist in this ambitious and often amusing novel. Old Pro John Hersey has a deeper purpose than picturing the humiliation of being young, however. Combining the sound reporting skill he employed in A Bell for Adano, and The Wall with the wild imagination he showed in The Marmot Drive and White Lotus, he has tried to explore the collegiate mind, to understand why today's undergraduates are so hard to communicate with, so susceptible to aimlessness, boredom and rebellion...
...magnificent volumes of journalism that make the Book of the Month Club. Into the Valley and Hiroshima are classics of reportage. All Hersey's best novels (A Bell for Adano, The Wall, A Single Pebble) are lightly fictionalized feature stories lifted from current history. His worst novels (The Marmot Drive, The Child Buyer) are nonjournalistic creations of an uncreative imagination. But even in the bad novels Author Hersey has always tried terribly hard to make literature. In White Lotus, he apparently tried only to make the Book of the Month Club...
...disappointments of the year was John Hersey's The Marmot Drive, the story of a Connecticut woodchuck hunt, full of murky meanings and pseudo-archaic Yankee lingo. One of the real surprises of the year was the belated bow in fiction of aged (81) Philosopher Bertrand Russell. His Satan in the Suburbs consisted of five stories whose weird plots and good-natured skepticism made for pretty good...
Since all the characters, including Hester, are extremely reticent about explaining themselves, there rises around The Marmot Drive an atmosphere of smoky symbolism. Though the book is smoothly written, its characters never quite develop enough force to blow the smoke away...