Word: sloane
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...CASE HISTORY OF COMRADE V. by JAMES PARK SLOAN 148 pages. Houghton Mifflin...
...middle of his brilliant and enigmatic second novel, James Park Sloan invents the "subway syndrome." Its victims are those overeducated drunks encountered in the subways late at night, frantically spitting out manic monologues at the tile walls. Ex-lawyers, ex-teachers, even ex-psychiatrists (who knows?), these gray-stubbled ruins with burning eyes represent, Sloan suggests, "the human psyche driven underground ... by a sense of helplessness in the face of an overwhelming body of human knowledge, subtly divided and incomprehensible to any single man." They don't know-they can't know-The Answer, and that knowledge...
...Sloan, 27, has taken on an anti-hero so refined he is practically a mathematical abstract. The author has broken down this problem solver into a human being by confronting him with problems the higher math cannot solve...
Advanced Modern Dance Class of Erasmus Hall High School (New York), under Florence Sloan, perform using themes of Communication. Unity, sensitivity. Identity, and The Drug Scene. Main Lounge, Currier, 8:30, April 22. Free...
...Baron), Cabaret ends up a straight-laced condemnation of sexuality at large. It is no coincidence that the few bisexual characters who have appeared in recent movies have all been presented as evil. Michael York in Something for Everyone and Terence Stamp in Feorema and Entertaining Mr. Sloan victimize the families they visit with their domineering sexual attractiveness, while Murray Head's characterization in Sunday Bloody Sunday is that of a callous and irresponsible drifter. Where movies have never experienced many qualms in dismissing homosexuality by equating it with impotency (except, of course, when a child entered the room...