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...volumes, he clearly demonstrated both his painter's eye and his remarkable facility with words. What is new in Pigeon Feathers is a more intense discipline than he has shown before. Gone are the pages of minuitae which continually threatened to bury and bore readers of his second novel, Rabbit, Run His latest short stories are cleaner, tighter, and more skilfully constructed than anything he has ever done before...
Pigeon Feathers and Other Stories, by John Updike. Literary exercises by America's most prestigious young writer, author of Pool-house Fair and Rabbit...
...Power Look. The Avanti, says Designer Loewy, "looks power." Its sloping, grill-less hood bears only single, recessed headlights, a single bar bumper, and a low-slung air scoop. Its high, rounded rump tucks under at the bottom like that of a rabbit in full flight and the waist of the car is slightly indented in Coke-bottle fashion-a design feature previously used only on supersonic jet fighters. Inside, reflecting Egbert's love of flying, the Avanti resembles a plush airplane with instruments set in neat, easy-to-reach groups, has two bucket seats in front...
...isolated Baltic island. The daughter, who has recently been electroshocked out of schizophrenia, is trying to face the difficult facts of her life: a devoted husband whom she does not love, a selfish father whose love she needs but cannot have, an ego that stands fascinated, like a rabbit, before the great snake of the unconscious...
Among the faculty are, however, several well-known persons. John H. Updike '54, author of Run, Rabbit, Run; drama critic Elliot Norton; and University of California professor emeritus Kenneth MacGowan, who will teach in the English Department...