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ALICE IN WONDERLAND has been appropriated by grown-ups. This collection of critical essays analyzes the book and its author (both as Charles Dodgson, Oxford math teacher, and under his pen name, Lewis Carroll). The range of subjects and types of criticism reflects an alarming degree of adult interest in Carrolliana. If there is one book that should not fall victim to Lit Crit, it's Alice...
...that most sacred of all places, was peeling. Actually, it had recently been covered with a fresh coat of blue paint, but there were no signs warning anybody, and if you hadn't already noticed, blue paint and gold corduroys just don't make it. You feel like the pen in your left pocket has just leaked, and this time, it wasn't even your fault...
First Tie. Son of an iron miner, Perpich is a fire-and-brimstone populist from northern Minnesota. As a boy, he shared a bed with two younger brothers. He delights in recalling that on his wedding day in 1954, his father Anton told him to leave behind "that pen you got when you left the eighth grade-one of your brothers can use it." Perpich became a dentist and was elected in 1962 to the state senate, where he pushed mining companies to pay more state taxes and reclaim pit-mined land. Predicted Ulric Scott, chairman of Minnesota...
Beginning with what he calls the Hypocritic Oath ("I swear by Midas, my malpractice insurance, the A.M.A..."), Berman lets nary a branch of his calling escape his splenetic pen. To the vanishing, often bungling general practitioner, he says: "Good riddance." His definition of what he believes surgeons regard as a "reasonable" fee: "All that the traffic can bear." Psychiatry, he says, has lately been "lit by rare flashes of brilliance such as transactional analysis and fornication therapy." As for pediatricians, he asks: "What kind of intellect opts to spend the better part of its professional life with diaper rash...
Four days later it still galls us to pen the results of that encounter. We'll grant you that pro wrestling's been around a while. After all, you don't become America's most popular sport overnight. True, wrestling was the first program ever broadcast on television; true, both Winston Churchill and Plato were wrestlers, and with minds like that behind you, you can get into some pretty complicated legal technicalities. But all that we're asking is that when you're got rules, you apply them fairly...