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Unfortunately, Kerouac lacks the verbal talent to match his passionate commitment to the truth in himself. He suffers from a breathless style and the frequent burble of "fine writing." His book must be reluctantly put down with the thought that here is another monument brave in conception but botched by clumsy chisels...
...circulation going!" cries Jack LaLanne, a 53-year-old, V-shaped (47-27-34) monument to muscularity. "Get those sweat glands working! Kick! Back! One-and-kick-and-two-and-kick-and-smile-and-kick! Don't stop! Smile and kick!" He wears ballet slippers and a body-hugging, low-cut jump suit, and bounds around like the original jumping Jack. Backed by bubbly organ music, he gives lectures on the beauties of sweating ("It's Mother Nature's air conditioner"), sings, tells jokes, blows kisses and delivers sermonettes. No one, he says, can hope...
...relatively expensive athletics program should continue to be subsidized by all students, even though a relatively small percentage participate in it. Few other Radcliffe issues have aroused such passion as the housing debate. The hunger strike required to make student opinion clear to Administration and Council still is monument to the lack of communication between the two parts of the College...
TOLSTOY, by Henri Troyat. The eccentricities and achievements of one of history's greatest literary artists, brought brilliantly to life in a monument to the craft of biography...
...Carvalho, packed up, bade Kiel a long-awaited farewell, and began life anew in Powell Symphony Hall, named for Shoe Executive Walter S. Powell, whose widow had provided a generous endowment for the move. But unlike the new concert halls in Manhattan and Los Angeles, Powell is no monument to architectural modernity. As befits one of the nation's oldest professional orchestras,* the hall is actually the 42-year-old St. Louis Theater, a prime specimen of the garish era of movie-palace construction. The orchestra bought it for $400,000 and converted it into a concert hall...