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This assault on mechanical modernism--one of Barth's correspondents describes "those symbol-fraught Swiss watches and Schwarzwald cuckoo clocks of Modernism"--hardly fits a novel that follows a schematic masterplan. You see, if you take the seven letters of the title-word "letters," superimpose them on a seven-month calendar using a quaint motto, so that the letters of the motto form the letters of "letters," then each letter of the motto will fall neatly onto a date in the calendar, one for each of the letters in the book...
...Year Reich, Richard Grunberger draws a chilling corollary: Hitler's accession in 1933, he contends, wrought no sudden or serious changes in the daily life and social institutions of Germany. Most Germans took to the swastika as naturally as they would to a new hiking path in the Schwarzwald...
Other members of the team include Melvin S. Schwarzwald '59, David A. Leipziger '59, and Edward C. Pinkus...
...Eliot House and Princess Anne, Md.; Home Secretary, John M. Ferren '59, of Kirkland House and Evanston, Ill.; Corresponding Secretary, Jared M. Diamond '58, of Winthrop House and Brookline, Mass.; Publicity Director, David L. Bynum '59, of Kirkland House and Coffeyville, Kansas; Director of Competition, Melvin S. Schwarzwald '59, of Kirkland House and Canton, Ohio...
...then, medical science has a wonderful way of confirming what ordinary people have always taken for granted. The International Gerontological Congress in St. Louis gave that kind of back-pat last week: people do get more fatheaded. In the aged, reported Dr. Oskar Vogt of Neustadt-Schwarzwald, Germany, most types of nerve cells in the brain show cavities filling up with fat. The cells themselves fight the invasion, resist most successfully when the individual keeps active. Concluded Dr. Vogt: "We have observed no case in which overwork was found to have accelerated the aging of the nerve cells...