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Anyone who has been seriously ill often develops mixed feelings about general practitioners and practitioners in general. Those sentiments have produced a burgeoning nonfiction genre: the antimedical medical book. Last season's outstanding instance was Norman Cousins' Anatomy of an Illness (Norton; $9.95). More in elation than in anger, the former editor of the Saturday Review recounted his battle against a disease of the spinal tissue that physicians had pronounced irreversible. Cousins ignored them. If stress and other negative emotions could trigger illness, he reasoned, positive emotions might restore health. The patient treated himself medically with ascorbic acid...
...Union's most important writing has never been published there at all. Instead, it circulates widely from hand to hand in the process known as samizdat (literally, self-publishing). Varlam Shalamov's lapidary concentration-camp stories, some of which were recently published in the U.S. by W.W. Norton under the title Kolyma Tales, have been in samizdat for 20 years. Currently the most prized samizdat work is Venedikt Yerofeyev's Moscow-Petushki. The account of a phantasmagoric drunken excursion on a suburban train, Yerofeyev's novella may be the most innovative piece of prose written...
...training worth roughly $4 million. "Trying to replace that experience is not only very expensive, but it takes time," says Major General William Reed Usher, director of the Air Force's personnel plans. "You end up with a more junior, less ready force." Says Colonel Bradfield Eliot at Norton Air Force Base in California: "We are so short of pilots that we are putting staff people back into the cockpit and making aircraft commanders out of people after only two or three years of training. We are using flight engineers who six months ago were cooks or bakers. The well...
...real earnings jumped 12% for a blue-collar federal employee and 6.3% for unionized labor in American industry. Thus the disparity has widened between comparable military and civilian pay. Says Master Sergeant Jessie Snodgrass, who is in charge of a C-141 air transport maintenance crew at Norton Air Force Base: "I am losing two men a month. The pay is unfair. The civilians here are paid $9.30 an hour and do exactly the same job as my men who get about $2.30." Other sample disparities: a mid-career NCO earns about $14,500 annually; if he is a computer...
...Norton Professor of Poetry at Harvard, where he lectured on "Modern Poetry: A Tradition Against Itself." Later, he was a visiting professor of Comparative Literature here...