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...Great Days is John Dos Passos' saddest, sorriest novel. Lancaster's vigorous young prime was under the reign of F.D.R.'s Blue Eagle. Then he had a beautiful wife and enthusiastic, high-placed friends who confided their problems to him and in return got the feel of the country from his shrewd, perceptive articles. When World War II begins, Ro goes right along with it, from blitzed London to the Pacific to the Nurnberg trials. He comes home still carrying in his heart the words spoken to him by H. G. Wells: "If you Americans...
...Jack Paar Show, but he complains: "All those interruptions [for commercials] while you sit there trying to be Voltaire-Voltaire wouldn't stand for it." He is particularly fascinated by U.S. giveaways, "where they meter the suffering that people have had, and the one with the saddest life gets the refrigerator. It's like watching a medieval morality play with all the vices paraded before you-avarice, for instance." As for The $64,000 Challenge, on which he flunked out at the $8,000 level when he failed to identify the Shalamar Gardens, he recalls: "The air conditioning...
...high school in Charleston. W. Va. (pop. 75,000), Jennie, who looks like the second-prettiest girl at a high-school prom, has taken on a new name (old one: Jo Ann Kristof), learned to gush cute quotes ("I'm crazy about mustard sandwiches ... I sing sad songs saddest when I'm happy") and do a very fair imitation of throaty, top-ranking Jazz Singer June Christy. To the tub-thumping rhythm of an intense promotional campaign by RCA Victor, Jennie just finished a month of bouncing about the country buttering up disk jockeys and celebrating the release...
...tutorial on a small point which he had not bothered to think through thoroughly in preparing for class the night before. Then the dean of the graduate school announces that he wants him to get his degree in four years rather than eight, as he had planned. Then--saddest day of all--he hears that some members of the Faculty are seriously considering abolishing him altogether...
...saddest jokes are those that wear...