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Letting Go, by Philip Roth. This overlong but nonetheless impressive novel about young college faculty members shows off the author's remarkable ear for dead-ringer dialogue and his sharpeye characterization of unhappy people...
...Fiats and Alfas at a clip that set an Italian auto executive to chortling, "So the Germans thought they were the only ones who could export cars!" In the bustling English Ford agency in Genoa, one of the scores of Genoese awaiting delivery of a new Anglia stabbed his ringer at the word "future"' in a poster proclaiming "There's a Ford in your future," and muttered sadly: "How true...
Daniel H. Calhoun, Fritz K. Ringer, and Mack Walker, all instructors in History, Charles D. Parsons '54, and Joseph A. Van Campen, research fellow in Slavic Languages and Literatures, will gain the posts...
...Ringer and Walker, who this year joined in teaching the history of Germany from 1648 to 1848, next year will combine to teach the history of Continental Europe, 1815 to 1870. They also teach in Harvard's General Education Program...
Although the Tchaikovsky Competition is open to applicants up to the age of 32, Ashkenazy seemed an outright ringer-an obvious hedge against another talented foreigner's running off with the prize. Only 24, he was already far more seasoned in the concert hall than most of the contest's applicants. But, as it turned out, the home-town hero was no shoo...