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...some say they believe the President has done a commendable job and is sincerely pushing for a negotiated settlement. Says Stephen Moorhead, a Northbrook, Ill., lawyer: "Nixon's done the best job he could with the situation he inherited and without losing face. McGovern would negotiate in weakness." Rex Stevens, an Indianapolis salesman, believes the McGovern campaign has actually endangered chances for a negotiated settlement: "Hanoi now will hold off negotiations until after the election...
...impression of raffish knowledgeability is what a writer tries to establish when he lists his accomplishments for the inside back flap of his novel's dust jacket. It is thus very good to be able to put down, as Novelist Barry Hannah did on the jacket of Geronimo Rex, "troubleshooter in a turkey-pressing plant." It is not so good to write "Presbyterian minister," and Frederick Buechner, who interrupted his writing career for several years to take a degree at Union Theological Seminary and become a minister, admits that he has thought of publishing his novels under an assumed...
...GERONIMO REX by Barry Hannah. 337 pages. Viking...
Like many novels about growing up absurd, Geronimo Rex is both a romantic retreat and a sharp, satirical attack on convention. It is the story of young Harriman Monroe, who lives in Dream of Pines, La., a little bit of Southern heaven stripped of its timber by a few paper companies. It is a place where old mules and dogs can park themselves in a House Beautiful driveway to die, and where the black principal of a segregated school turns out the greatest high school marching band in the nation. At 22 Harriman is a seasoned eccentric-ex-trumpet prodigy...
...Rex W. Mason '73, who ran the Mather House wine cellar before it was forced to close, said yesterday that he would "check up" on such a license, "The wine cellar was such a great deal for everyone, "he said, "I'd love to start it up again...