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Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour-An Introduction, by J. D. Salinger. More installments in the life of the solemn little Glass menagerie may delight younger readers, but may prove a bit wearing for older ones...
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour-An Introduction, by J. D. Salinger. More installments in the life of the solemn little Glass menagerie may delight younger readers but may prove a bit wearing for older ones...
...retaliatory measures against France. West Germany's Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard, who was in tears at Brussels when France blackballed Britain, went home breathing defiance of De Gaulle and threats to topple Konrad Adenauer. He got nowhere (see West Germany). And after all the oratory at Strasbourg, a "solemn protest" motion condemning De Gaulle's "domination" of Europe was defeated by a tie vote of 38-38-hardly a resounding gesture of defiance...
Roth's second book involved the boldest sort of risk taking. Letting Go is a long, complex novel about the entanglements of two of those songless goliards, the young university instructors. It is sober and often solemn; with a self-confidence approaching bravado, Roth refused to use in it the skill at satirical pastiches that had glittered so brilliantly in Goodbye, Columbus. "I had done that," he said recently, "Why do it again...
...players can pass behind their backs, fake like Houdini, and riffle the net from 20 ft. But Rodney King Thorn, a gangling (6 ft. 4 in., 180 Ibs.) youth of 21, is probably the only one whose talents called forth a special resolution from his home-state legislature. In solemn session, the lawmakers classified him as "a great natural resource," begged him to attend the local university "to further develop his natural athletic ability for the use and benefit of the State and its 2,000,000 citizens...