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...Love Story (New York: Harper and Row $4.95) is at the very top of the New York Times fiction bestseller list. Segal (Harvard 58) is a classics professor at Yale who runs in the Boston marathen and wrote the screenplay for the Beatles movie, Yellow Submarine. His moist saga of a Harvard-Radcliffe romance circa-1965 was originally published in Ladies' Home Journal. Segal says. "Thirteen million readers of Ladies' Home Journal have learned something about what college kids are doing today." He bases this hope on the fact that his short novel (130 small pages of large type...
...conception and construction that the musical never overcomes. In essence, the Marx Brothers were absurdists, comic illogicians who disrupted routines, tipped the daily balance sheet of existence awry, and exploded surprises like firecrackers. By contrast, the musical is a routine Broadway blueprint of the oft-repeated show-biz saga. Here it all is-indigent beginnings, ineffectual father, indomitable, solicitous and insufferable stage mother, fleabag hotels, one-night stands, the big chance with the kingpin producer, a smash hit at vaudeville's old Valhalla, the Palace, and at the final fadeout, on to Hollywood and immortality. The plot...
...comparison, Detroit's Wall of Dignity is calm and restrained. Painted primarily by Chicago Artist Bill Walker, it faces a rubble-strewn lot on Mack Avenue in Detroit's East Side slums, and brings to the residents a saga of the black man's history from ancient Egypt to LeRoi Jones' exhortation: "Calling all black people. Calling you urgent...
Flying Carpets. Outwardly the book is a picaresque saga of the extraordinary Buendia family in Macondo, the town they helped to found more than a century ago in the dense Colombian lowlands. Pioneer settlers from a foothills town, José Arcadio Buendia and Úrsula, his wife-cousin, start with nothing but the vehemence of their blood. They soon make Macondo into a strange oasis in the orchid-filled jungle, a primitive, otherworldly place resonant with songbirds, where there is no death, no crime, no law, no judges. The only outside visitors are gypsies, who astound the residents with magnets...
...Harvard administrators decided last week to call in bids from four companies-Saga Foods, Stouffer Foods, the Harvard Food Service, and Marriott Hot Shoppes-for the operation of the Harkness Common Dining Hall next year...