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...SPORT AND A PASTIME by James Salter. 191 pages. Doub/eday...
France's no-longer-new New Novelists have found few imitators in the U.S. James Salter, 40, is one of the exceptions. His model seems to be Alain Robbe-Grillet, who labors in his books to "construct a space and time purely mental, that of a dream or memory." Perhaps in tribute, Salter sets his third book in France. His subject is the love affair between Anne-Marie Costallat, an 18-year-old who looks like a child but eats like a dock hand, and young Phillip Dean, a Yale dropout who has been wandering through Europe with "that...
...West Pointer who served twelve years in the U.S. Air Force, Salter came late to fiction. "I was not always a writer," he says, "but perhaps I was always becoming one." There are bestselling novelists who could learn from this cool and quiet book...
Other Bears to watch are backstroking sophomore Vance Salter, butterflyer Har-old Mugford and Brown breaststroke record-holder Butch Wilder...
Both candidates agreed to maintain the present structure of SGA. But, while Miss Salter said it offers adequate means for communication of student opinion, Miss Otis claimed that SGA could be more effectively used...