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...heroes on the backs of envelopes and rolls of toilet paper must be exposed in a perverse invasion of privacy masked as scholarship. But what scholarship won't claim as its own, the best-seller world of business-oriented publishing frequently will. Take Ernest Hemingway's Islands in The Stream. The novel, published well after his death, has no merit whatsoever. It did, however, prove two damning points: Hemingway, suffering an unconquerable stasis, was over the hill; his widow, suffering financially, needed the money. Like Hemingway's, John Berryman's Recovery is an unfinished first draft, a rigor mortis novel...
...board-seemed more than equal to the task. Since it began operating as an oceanographic research vessel for the Smithsonian Institution two years ago, Sea-Link* had easily plunged to depths of 1,000 ft. Last week, as the minisub maneuvered in swift currents of the Gulf Stream, routine turned abruptly into tragedy...
Come nightfall, Bermuda shorts are sometimes exchanged for evening gown and tux for a trip to the casinos. To encourage a steady stream of new faces-and new money-there is a three-day parking limit on the Stardust grounds. Few campers stay that long; there is always someplace else to go. For some, keeping on the move is what it is all about. Foster Root, a retired salesman, sold his house in New Jersey and took to the road with his wife. "We're camping 52 weeks a year," he says, "until we decide where to live...
Wrong. Setting up the hierarchy of his field-and-stream Utopia, Shepard writes: "The conception of both society and the future would be returned to the hands of elders-of adults -where it belongs...
...Over Innsmouth will suffice. The plot concerns a doomed Massachussetts fishing town whose population is obscenely corrupted by intermingling with a race of fiendish undersea creatures. Learning all this, the narrator attempts to flee. On the outskirts of town, he looks back and sees his pursuers "in a limitless stream-flopping, hopping, croaking, bleating, surging inhumanly through the spectral moonlight in a grotesque, malignant saraband of fantastic nightmare...