Word: rosten
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Captain Newman, M.D., Rosten...
...Franny and Zooey, Salinger (1, last week) 2. The Agony and the Ecstasy, Stone (2) 3. To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee (5) 4. Captain Newman, M.D., Rosten (6) 5. A Prologue to Love, Caldwell (3) 6. Daughter of Science, West (4) 7. Chairman of the Bored, Streeter (7) 8. The Ivy Tree, Stewart (9) 9. Little Me, Dennis (8) 10. The Carpetbaggers, Robbins...
...witness such recent novels as: Captain Newman, M.D., by Leo Rosten, Faces in the Water, by Janet Frame, and Lilith, by J. R. Salamanca...
Apparently intending these adornments to offset his central theme and prove that life has at least two sides, Author Rosten has ended up with a novel that suffers from cute appendicitis. Captain Newman, M.D. is really two books, intertwined like medicine's caduceus, at its best considerably better than The Snake Pit, at its worst a fun-house chortle hollowly echoing See Here, Private Hargrove...
Cute Appendicitis. Unfortunately, Rosten alternates his serious chapters with scenes of pure situation comedy, belabored with literary vaudeville. The contrast with the scenes of death and suffering is ludicrous. A story that ends in suicide, for example, is immediately followed by one in which half the officers on the post, full of booze, jump into the officers' club pool in pursuit of a flock of ducks. In another episode, sheep get loose on the main runway when a plane carrying the Under Secretary of War for Air is about to land. There is a private from Alabama who thinks...