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Evangeline Morphos, East Yard senior adviser, said yesterday she believes the situation will improve, and said, "My dog Boswell has been authorized by me to scout out the floor space free of charge to the University...
...scene showing Batista absorbed in a Christopher Lee vampire movie as Castro moves in for the kill. The decadence of Batista's supporters appears about as wild as that of the fast crowd in an Ohio country club, while Castro's revolutionaries behave like a hirsute Boy Scout troop. It is hard to believe that this dumb picture is the work of the director who did the delicious Three Musketeers movies...
...accumulated there, two hours driving from the nearest settlement, was a testament to the size of the American health care establishment. Within 45 minutes, the accident victims had been looked over by two doctors and two nurses, bandaged by a service corpsman and given helpful advice by an Eagle Scout with advanced first aid training. An hour later the ambulances and police arrived...
INSTEAD UPDIKE plunges us into a scrutiny of the alienated characters. In "Love Song for a Moog Synthesizer," for instance, he binds us in the "spirals of indignation" of a Cub Scout den mother. Throughout the collection of short stories, Updike stalks the problem of human disconnectedness from all imaginable angles, realistically fleshing it out in "Domestic Life in America," abstracting it in his geometric "Problems," sketching a symbolic outline in the opening piece, "Commercial," recasting it as classical tragedy in "Augustine's Concubine." But he refuses to hunt out the solutions in the diseased scenarios. His "maimed and fanatic...
...sunken continent," to which Updike appeals to show the unity between human individual islands is a tired thematic device. The frogman and the Cub Scout mother have very little to say to each other...