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...Fortune in Dimes, by Mary Carter. A sardonic look at the beachbound aborigines of Pasadena, where in the author's view teen culture embraces all ages, and life is full, rich and empty...
...Fortune in Dimes, by Mary Carter. An artful novelist's look at the beachbound aborigines of Pasadena, where teen culture embraces all ages, and life is full, rich and empty...
...first of his tribe to go to college, but he tells Wells: "You fascinate me, Wells. You are untouched. No diseases of the outside world have tinged you. You're part of an aboriginal race, maybe. I wonder if it has something to do with the climate in Pasadena . . . the anthropologists are wrong. Leisure doesn't always lead to culture...
...anthropology, Mrs. Carter's guided tour of the Pasadena paradise is indeed fascinating. The pattern of the perfect life is disturbed by nothing but slight cases of alcoholism or mismating outside the tribe. Mother worries that Decker might get hooked on a starlet and bring on Jerry Giesler with a paternity case. Sister has already married a mathematician from Cal Tech, who appears to her as a wonderful being, "exotic and remote as a maharajah"-but who makes less money than the gardener. Decker's father-still hung up on a bogus buddyhood with war cronies...
Brief Muddle. Will Pasadena's teenagers, who congest the sands of nearby Balboa like mating seals, detach themselves from the herd and grow up to be men and women? It seems unlikely. Only death, like poverty or God, an unmentionable fact of life, offers Decker a vision of life in its grave reality. He flunks a child-watching chore, and his little cousin Buddy dies a Californian death by surfboard. This muddles him for a time, but we are given to understand he will soon settle down to life with the other seals. One of his friends, however...