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LOUISE SEEKS escape from the vacuousness of her own life--she feels sometimes "as if she alone were standing there, caught in a black-and-white frame while everyone else was moving around in color." To Miriam, the protagonist of "Sour or Suntanned. It Makes No Difference," the main problem, on the other hand, is how to avoid being contaminated by the grayness of other peoples' lives. To this unhappily observant child, the world is composed of an admixture of liars and fool, typified by an aunt "who spent her life thinking there was not much children could understand...
...though, Miriam arrives at a seemingly healthier strategy for survival than most of Kaplan's other protagonists. Drawn into superficial conformity with a ritualistic world (in camp the bugle sounded early each morning, and "there was no way at all to stop anything that came after"), she nevertheless vows to "keep all her aliveness a secret...
...Miriam is at least better off than Naomi in "Loss of Memory Is Only Temporary," whose sense of abandonment leads her to forsake her love for languages and turn to the field of psychiatry, where people are transformed into cases. At home in faceless hospital corridors, she prescribes electroshock therapy and hides her own hurt in stony silence...
...Died. Miriam Young, 62, novelist (Heaven Faces West) and children's book writer whose bestselling autobiography about life with her vaudevillian parents (Mother Wore Tights) was turned into one of Hollywood's most extravagant movie musicals of the 1940s; of cancer; in Lake Katonah...
...Charles D. Cox, at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, this seemed paradoxical because spirochetes infecting humans or animals flourish in oxygen-rich blood and cells. With Technician Miriam K. Barber he began experimenting with a virulent strain of syphilis bacteria grown in rabbits. Using a recently developed, extremely sensitive technique for measuring oxygen concentrations, the two investigators found that the spirochetes, far from being anaerobic, consume oxygen in their metabolism. In the journal Infection and Immunity they suggest the "strong possibility" that oxygen is necessary for the reproduction and growth of the organisms. As to why they...