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VANITY OF DULUOZ, by Jack Kerouac. Still another in the seemingly endless run of the ex-beat prophet's autobiographical novels. Few writers have asked their mem ory to speak more often, and the wonder is that Kerouac's replies are still fresh...
...Republican programs had "headlights" instead of highlights; his friendly archrival became "the gentleman from Rayburn, Mr. Texas." Joe Martin and Democratic Speaker Sam Rayburn were synonymous with the House for two generations of Americans. Once, when Rayburn was asked to campaign against Martin in Massachusetts, the Texan responded brusquely: "Speak against Joe? Hell, if I lived up there, I'd vote...
...Collection of Wishes. Formed by the 1960 union of British and Italian Somaliland, Somalia is populated by blacks of the Moslem faith who are largely illiterate nomads. While some Somalis in the north speak English, many southerners rattle off Italian with ease-and are only slightly less adept at the appropriate hand gestures. Italian influence also remains in the crumbling old arches and seaside villas, the pasta and Italian wines served in restaurants and the 1934 Fiat trucks that disgorge angry clouds of billowy, greasy smoke in the streets of the capital of Mogadishu...
...with much else in The Return of the Vanishing American, this suggestion demands a skeptical response. For when Fiedler leaves the well-beaten bush of literature and psychology for territory as complex "and mystifying as the human nervous system, he is a tourist who does not speak the language. He has an unfortunate way of composing statements full of adman phrases such as "New Man" and the "West of Here and Now." He has a penchant for over-categorizine and overreaching, as when he calls Marilyn Monroe the pop-culture version of the Indian love goddess, bleached out "under...
Donald L. Fowler, executive director of the South Carolina Democrats, will speak on "New Southern Politics and the 1968 Elections" at 8 p.m. tonight in the Lowell House JCR as part of the Lowell Ford Speakers Program...