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But in the last few years, total recall has become almost a way of life. Rip examines magazines devoted to trivia, recalling the names of Tarzan's co-stars and the Lone Ranger's genealogy. He sees ads for Buster Keaton festivals and even for Ozymandian musicals like...
The school's previous foray into high culture, a visit from a ballet troupe, had not been an unmixed success. Large sections of the audience applauded, to be sure--some even cheered and whistled--but only when the female dancers pirouetted quickly enough to raise their skirts above their waists...
More reasonable complaints include a shortage of jobs comparable to those that the Jews had in Russia, poor housing, inadequate cultural facilities and the easygoing permissiveness of life in modern secular Israel. Although most of the disenchanted emigrants are not religiously observant, they were shocked that a Jewish state would...
The satire of Up the Sandbox is cozy and gloating. Women who bask in their husbands' success-indeed, live largely for it-are pitied. Any women who might object to having their husbands' lives forever take precedence are scorned as sour neurotics with sexual identity problems. Sandbox continually...
SO IT WAS that by 1972, The Quiet Campus had arrived, and newspapers were noting that students were studying more, and applying to medical schools and law schools, and drinking more beer, and wearing corduroys and skirts instead of blue jeans. Mr. Nixon mined the harbors of Haiphong and stepped...