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Most of the contributors are committed to the conventional realism that has by now become a rut for American storytelling. They concentrate humorlessly on a social or psychological problem, they marshal bony facts in straight platoons of narrative, and they employ the English language with literalness and flatness...
...right with everybody but the young bucks of the town, and chief among them was the village president's son Lorenz ("Hot Rod") Froelich. At dinner almost every night, Hot Rod, a big, 24-year-old redhead, would complain to his father that Bonduel was sleeping in a rut while progress passed by. The village board, Hot Rod argued, should wake up, give the kids a roller-skating rink, and bring small industry into Bonduel. Old John Froelich didn't pay too much attention...
...than their social climbing or the cut of their suits. Basically, he is saying that the man who typifies our urban eastern civilization, the rising executive who rides the commuter's locals and hopes to send his children to good prep schools, is caught in a horrible treadmill. A rut is what you make of it; even Mr. Marquand's social anthropologist--a fascinating literary device, based partially on fact--indicates that he is tired of the South Seas rut and would like another. It is foolish to make treadmillers out of men who, as a class, are certainly...
...Rut. In Boston, a 20-year-old youth, just released after serving a six-month rap for breaking into a restaurant last year, tried it three more times in the same place, was nabbed by police on the fourth attempt...
House League basketball bounced along in the established rut as it moved into its pre-exam series, Dudley beating Adams, 46 to 41, and Lowell coming from behind to top Winthrop, 41 to 31, in the Blockhouse Saturday night...