Word: short
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mass market with Kinsman. It's science fiction, yes, the reliable Bova blend of advanced science and backward bureaucrats, but science fiction intended primarily for the uninitiated--those sad souls who do not see the value of space travel or the vast potential of the raw materials out there; short, those who are letting, and helping, the space program go down the tubes...
More often than not, however, these nuggets of well-proportioned wit are isolated, self-contained, and have no need for the monstrous superstructure around them. Barth could have--and has--written wonderful short stories or brief novels with such material...
Nevertheless, Theroux includes some passable anecdotes, like one on the inappropriate naming of South American cities: "None of the Lagunas Verdes was green...Progreso in Guatemala was backward; La Liberated in El Salvador, a stronghold of repression in a country where salvation seemed in short supply." And his descriptions of the class stigmas on the trains and his interview with Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges are superb...
...that tournament, Felske's charges made a go of it, but came up points short of eventual champion Dartmouth and Trinity, settling for third place. This year the competition will be tougher, as Ivy power Yale makes its debut in the tournament. But the six players Felske takes with him to Amherst should be able to avoid any traps their Ivy sisters may set for them...
KRISTEN MERTZ and ABBY MEISELMAN. The long and short of it on the tennis team, the two sophomores drew the eighth seed in the doubles bracket, which "can only help," as Felske says. Meiselman, winner of the GBC's fourth singles title, is a scrappy baseline player. Mertz, another GBC champ who is undefeated this fall, will bring a strong serve and net game to the combo...