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...Cuban missile crisis, I briefed President Kennedy and his advisers. Although few people knew it, there was a Cuban submarine crisis going on at the same time that posed a greater threat than the short-range missiles being installed in Cuba. The U.S. had received evidence of Soviet submarine-pen construction that would have enabled Soviet submarines capable of launching long-range missiles to cruise up and down U.S. coasts. A Soviet naval base of this magnitude in Cuba would have allowed the deployment of enemy subs in our backyard with great ease and frequency...
Emerging from the stream of students throwing soft footballs and exam- ining their new J.P. Morgan pens, Campbell admitted that he appreciated getting a "new bubble pen" as well as learning about new career opportunities...
Updike's prose, as ever, makes a fantastically beautiful read. New England hills and frozen golf courses become the landscape of the female body and skinny, thieving prostitutes are virginal deer under his masterful pen. The language of growth, fertility and nature is strewn throughout the book, forming an ideal realm against which the disintegrating, technoiogically advanced world of man seems ridiculously fumbling and doomed...
...living. We keep expecting some pivotal moment in Boyhood that never arrives, an epiphany in which the adolescent boy realizes he is destined to write. After all, isn't the author of a memoir, especially if he's a distinguished author, supposed to explain how he came to set pen to paper in the first place? The young Coetzee, while fond of books and learning, does not seem particularly driven to his present vocation...
...this the end of the literary line for Vonnegut? "I'm 75 years old," he answered gruffly, "You can ask an insurance agent." According to the author, he will put down his pen for good and take up painting silk-screens, which he gleefully calls, "a terribly impractical process...