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GOODBYE, COLUMBUS. A newcomer named Ali MacGraw and her costar, Richard Benjamin, shine in this otherwise lackluster adaptation of Philip Roth's novella of being young, in love and Jewish in suburbia...
This change in morality is most prominently approved by those in the upper reaches of achievement: professional men and women, the college-educated, the prosperous citizens of suburbia. They are joined by young people under 30 and, in many instances, by the blacks. The moral conservatives, those who still cling tightly to the old verities, are mainly to be found among those over 50 and in the lower-income, less-educated sectors, especially in small towns. In the matter of morality, there are virtually two Americas...
...present, the Harvard shadow school offers 25 courses on determinedly "relevant" topics, ranging from radical politics to the ethics of middle-class suburbia. The quality of the bull sessions is necessarily uneven. David A. Lane, a teaching fellow in history, is studying Claude Lévi-Strauss in a New College course led by a senior majoring in folklore and mythology. Lane calls the meetings "the best intellectual discussions I've ever participated...
GOODBYE, COLUMBUS. Larry Peerce is a director with a lamentable sense of style and a laudable way with actors. Although his version of Philip Roth's 1959 novella of young love in suburbia sometimes lurches out of control, Richard Benjamin and stunning Newcomer Ali MacGraw save the show with finely shaded performances...
BULLET PARK, by John Cheever. In his usual setting of uncomfortably comfortable suburbia, Cheever stages the struggle of two men-one mild and monogamous, the other tormented and libertine-over the fate...