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...RABBIT REDUX by John Updike. 406 pages. Knopf...
...Rabbit...
When last seen through the mist of such depressing lyrics. Harry ("Rabbit") Angstrom was hustling his 6 feet 3 inches over the drab surface of Mount Judge, Pa., and away from his responsibilities. That was in 1960 at the conclusion of John Updike's Rabbit, Run. Unlike Huckleberry Finn, Rabbit had no expansive territory ahead. Tethered by circumstances, he could only enjoy what Updike calls "a little ecstasy of motion...
...Rabbit, Run appeared just after a decade that had seen the American family organized into malleable consuming units by television and magazines dedicated to "togetherness." It was a time of young marriages, early pregnancies and "coping." Rabbit's species, in fact, was rapidly proliferating in millions of small garden apartments from coast to coast. At 26, his exploits as a high school basketball star had faded into barbershop statistics. He was wed-locked to Janice Springer, the dim little broad who had sold nuts at the five and dime. He had fathered a daughter and a son, inheritor...
Americans may, as they tell the polltakers, consider television their prime source of news. According to yet another survey, however, TV newscasts usually go in one rabbit ear and out the other. Telephoning TV viewers after a newscast, Andrew Stern, a former ABC News staffer now on the journalism faculty of the University of California at Berkeley, found that 51% of those who had listened could not recall even one of the show's 19 items. Among all those called, the average memory rate was one item. (The calls were made over a period ranging from immediately after...