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...were built to Japanese specifications with 7-ft. ceilings that many Western athletes find a trifle "repressive." Save for that, the Japanese hosts have anticipated every need right down to the installation of toilets equipped with heaters to prevent the water from freezing. The dining halls serve richly varied menus with items ranging from hamburgers and milkshakes to such local delicacies as hairy crab and fried squid. The village's sauna features an "enzyme ion bath" in which the athletes bury themselves in a pile of fermenting cedar sawdust. Every aspect of the games, in fact, from...
...wrestle with the gristly question of whether or not such regressive female reflexes can be reconditioned. He simply launches Al on a career-at his wife's request. This allows a few familiar divertissements. Al's upward mobility, for instance, is traced in increasingly fancy expense-account menus ("O Clams Casino! O Sweetbreads Gramercy!") and escalating malapropisms: "What atmosphere! This place sure has milieu." His inevitable professional decline thereafter produces a characteristic coda: "Going downhill is uphill work all the way, baby cakes...
...class that forced the dining halls to save $750 dollars a week by omitting extra cookies, deserts, bread and cereals from their wartime menus, has also exhibited a corresponding practicality in its plans for the week's festivities. This year, the traditional reunion hat is a baseball cap, so that classmates can still wear it to the ball park or the golf course when the whole affair is over. And the Harvard emblem has been stitched on extra lightly so that it need not permanently brand its wearer...
Stone's main mistake is non-selectivity. He spent five years in research, and seems more interested in the facts than he is in Freud. Even menus are printed in full, and at one point the story stands still while the author describes 37 of Freud's colleagues. Anal is the Freudian word for this sort of heap making, but Stone is unembarrassed and apparently unaware that the details have effaced the drama of Freud's life...
After work, the men take hot showers, chuck their dirty clothes into washing machines and take off for the chow hall. There are separate menus for the two prevailing cultures on board. The Cajuns get their rice, beans and gumbo and the Mississippians their ham, greens and potatoes. Then they talk sex, watch television or play a Cajun card game called Bourée (pronounced boo-ray). To a visitor, there seems a relaxed camaraderie aboard, as though the men had achieved a kind of brotherhood through suffering. Still, there is no desire by the men to see their experience...