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John Barth came of novelistic age in the fifties when existentialism was all the rage, and the grand American theme was embattled innocence in the rye and on the road. His first two novels. The Floating Opera (1956) and The End of the Road (1958) are cast in the spirit of those times conventional in form ironic in tone, and much preoccupied with the problem of moral choice in the face of absurdity. The two books received a due measure of critical success, and qualified Barth as one of the promising young talents on the American scene...
Back in the 1950s and early 1960s, college kids would no more have been without their LPs of Pianist Dave Brubeck's Jazz Goes to College, Brubeck Time* and Impressions of Eurasia than their paperbacks of Steppenwolf or The Catcher in the Rye. But five years ago Brubeck suddenly disbanded what was probably the most popular jazz quartet of the post-World War II era. He had earned his secure nook in history and was hankering after other accomplishments. For one thing, he wanted to compose serious music-and he soon turned out three major religious works, including...
...expected to fill quotas set in the current Five-Year Plan, especially for feed-grains used in meat production. Under last week's agreement, which was announced at the Western White House by National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger, Moscow can buy any combination of U.S. wheat, corn, sorghum, rye, oats and barley that it chooses, at the going market rate. The Soviets' biggest concession was to accept the same financing that the Agriculture Department's Commodity Credit Corporation gives any other customer: 6⅛% annually, with the entire loan repaid within three years after the last delivery...
...before repeal, U.S. whiskey executives have long been counting the days till July 1, 1972. On that day last week, having aged the required four years, the first batch of light whiskey-a new kind of spirit that goes down more smoothly and has less flavor than bourbon or rye-could legally be brought out of the barrel and bottled for sale. Distillers passed the years of waiting by copywriting names and dreaming up different recipes for some 50 new brands. Yet when the big day finally arrived, many of the whiskey men who had planned to celebrate with...
Modern medicine has more potent weapons. Ergotamine tartrate, an ergot, or rye fungus derivative, constricts painfully swollen blood vessels and helps many migraine-and cluster-headache patients. Tranquilizers can also provide short-term relief of the tension that can trigger a severe headache. Psychological treatment to uncover emotional causes has worked for many people. But for some patients, nothing works very well. Taking what small solace they can from the fact that they are in famous company, they must do what headache sufferers have done for many centuries -learn to endure their ailment...