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...unfailing relish for the ironies of the situation. Somewhere in one of those classes, as Nabokov might have guessed, was at least one future novelist, Thomas Pynchon. Somewhere in his own imagination glimmered at least two future academic portraits, the title character of Pnin and the poet John Shade of Pale Fire...
...Vliet's Water and Stone is a deceptively quiet collection of near, image-rich work, largely what might be described as observations ("In a Photograph by Brady") or apercus ("The Shade," "Girls on Saddleless Horses"). There is also, incidentally, some particularly chilling cancer imagery in various places ("...cobalt's/basilisk stare, the destroyed blood"; "the crab/under the heart, the thickening node"); and the death-soaked title work, a sort of Japanese No drama, is frighteningly memorable...
...matter head-on in his speech. "Ted," he said, "your party needs?and I need you. And I need your idealism and your dedication working for us. We'll make great partners this fall in whipping the Republicans." A commendable effort at healing the convention wounds, perhaps, but a shade too pleading to come from a President. Carter was also embarrassed by the boos that greeted his mention of draft registration, an outcry that was quickly drowned out by his supporters. (Later, when other White House officials were introduced, National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski was also booed.) Kennedy...
Colby-Sawyer College in New London, N.H., has the look of a typical New England campus in summer session. Small groups of students sprawl on smooth lawns, chat in the green shade of old maple trees, and stroll among rosy brick and crisp white clapboard buildings. But this is no typical summer school. The students are somewhat longer of tooth and thicker of waist than the average undergraduate, and their chatter is about polymers and photoconduction, magnetic resonance and spectroscopy. They are participants in one of the Gordon Research Conferences, possibly the oldest and most eminent floating brain trust...
What has happened to cause the illusory miracle is that the city has played to its strength, with all the usual rewards and penalties of such a strategy. New York's strength is Manhattan. Manhattan is beautiful and rich and piled high with roof gardens that give shade to some very rich and beautiful people. The cost of rental apartments in Manhattan, if one can be found, has risen preposterously since 1975, which means in short that a two-bedroom pad for $1,500 a month is a steal. Or would you rather buy? The number of cooperative apartments resold...