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Mailer was outraged by the scene in which a character bearing his name, rank and serial number was shot by a punk recruit. Furthermore, the bullet was fired into the very end of his digestive tract from a range that politely can only be called pointblank. At a meeting of lawyers and publishers, Mailer offered to reduce Lelchuk to "a hank of hair and some fillings." That literary phrase turned out to be a pretty good description of the novel itself...
Edward T. Wilcox, dean of the GSAS, told graduate students that the plan "attempts to effect a compromise" between those Faculty members who want complete autonomy to recruit students on the basis of merit and those graduate students who want strict need-based funding of graduate education...
...accent, David Hurst fulfills Pirandello's idea of a Freudian parody; any stereotyping should undoubtedly be blamed on the author rather than the actor. Even the four servants or counselors become distinct personalities, especially Landolph (the leader, portrayed with graceful ease by Stephen Newman) and Berthold (a naive raw recruit played by a fellow with the unlikely name of Reno Roop...
...Monday's meeting of the Committee on Fellowships and Other Aid, the Faculty body that passed the official aid plan, several department chairmen raised precisely the opposite objection. They claimed that the requirement for need-based funding is too strict and will interfere with their autonomy to recruit students according to merit...
...years earlier when China was in the throes of recovery from a crash industrialization program, one of the Chairman's most outspoken right wing critics asserted that Mao had placed undue faith in politics rather than in economic realities. Mao responded with a threat to recruit a new Red Army which would overthrow the present Communist Party should it disobey him. He told his comrades, "You ought to try sleeping pills if you're tense...