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...dappled mall, Mrs. Claire Wilson, 18, eight months pregnant, was walking from an anthropology class when a bullet crashed into her abdomen; she survived, but later gave birth to a stillborn child whose skull had been crushed by the shot. A horrified classmate, Freshman Thomas Eckman, 19, knelt beside her to help, was shot dead himself. Mathematician Robert Boyer, 33, en route to a teaching job in Liverpool, England, where his pregnant wife and two children were awaiting him, stepped out onto the mall to head for lunch, was shot fatally in the back. More fortunate was Secretary Charlotte Darehshori...
...pronouncing the novel of action dead and buried, Alberto Moravia has been forced to prove his point by writing novels of inaction. This one is not only inactive; it is stillborn. Francesco Merighi, a journalist with sex problems (Moravia's hang-up), tires of his wife and examines the possibility of a relationship with his stepdaughter (step-incest?). Nothing happens, though, because that is not really what Merighi wants: "She represented the nullity which I would be able to love simply because it was nullity." The book is in the form of a diary that Merighi keeps...
Generation, by William Goodhart. A baby is born in this comedy, and a stillborn Broadway theater season comes to life with it. This is not a hard-sell gag show but a play imbued with a fond and wry regard for the humor implicit in human nature. With an honest eye, Playwright Goodhart also observes what is often called the conflict but is really the distance between generations...
...Andrea's self-centered world begins to go off the track. His grown son is a layabout who seems more interested in petty rackets than honest work. His daughter (Sylva Koscina), already embittered at having been forced to marry the store clerk who seduced her, has a stillborn child. While Andrea is brooding about that misfortune his train runs down a suicide. Afterward, the engineer takes a few drinks to steady himself, narrowly averts a worse disaster when he rams his locomotive through a stop signal. Demoted to a yard job that destroys the fag end of his pride...
...Sweden to be aborted. The other was an even worse disaster: the German measles (rubella) epidemic that began late in 1963 in New England. It moved slowly across the U.S., is still claiming victims in the Pacific states, and is expected to leave more than 30,000 U.S. babies stillborn or crippled. Doctors widely disagree as to what proportion of women who get the infection early in pregnancy will bear blind or deformed babies. The most authoritative estimate, from Johns Hopkins' Dr. Alexander J. Schaffer, places it at 40% if the mother catches the infection in the first month...