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...SADDEST SUMMER OF SAMUEL S, by J. P. Donleavy. Once again Black Humorist Donleavy (Ginger Man) proves that he can make something of nothing-in this case a non-hero who has worn out his Viennese psychiatrist and baffled a predatory countess and a girl tourist in his Kafkaesque progress to nothingness...
...time since 1960, when he went to the University of Wales as principal of University College in Swansea, he will be living in the city. Parry is especially fond of the rural life--his favorite non-academic pastimes are sailing, fishing, and bird-watching--and he admits that "the saddest thing about leaving Wales was losing that salmon stream that flowed by my doorstep." He will, however, retain his house in Harvard, Mass., about 30 miles west of Cambridge, and continue to spend vacations, summers, and some weekends there...
...SADDEST SUMMER OF SAMUEL S by J. P. Donleavy. 124 pages. Delacorte Press...
...philosophical despair, the girl is the last to know that her lover was already a cold-war casualty when she met him. The anonymous men who live by violence, Leamas tells her savagely, "are a bunch of seedy squalid bastards, henpecked husbands, sadists, queers, drunkards," themselves among the saddest victims of the causes they defend...
...coming in." When, after 20 minutes of space gymnastics, U.S. Astronaut Edward Higgins White II, 34, finally did agree to squeeze himself back into his Gemini 4 ship, he still had not had enough of space walking. Said he to Command Pilot James Alton McDivitt: "It's the saddest day of my life...