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...exaggerated irritations of the emotionally cramped, most of Updike's heros suffer from their desire to hoard the love they have--and from their resulting febrility. At least two stories, "The Day of the Dying Rabbit" and "Man and Woman in the Cold," make the re-assertion of tenuous connections between father and children seem the beautiful victory not only of love over familial gaps, but of man's positive, creative urges over surrender to chaos. Updike has become a mature commentator; if his characters don't know their ultimate fate, they do determine their direction. Even "The Witnesses...
...Apollo 17, four wholly new instruments have been included in the ALSEP package: a mass spectrometer to measure the moon's tenuous atmosphere; a detector that will let earthbound scientists monitor the bombardment of cosmic dust particles and micrometeorites on the moon's surface; an array of four listening devices-geo-phones-that can pick up shock waves from explosive charges that will be detonated after the astronauts leave and should tell much about the substructure of the landing site; an extremely sensitive gravimeter that is designed to pick up minuscule variations in lunar surface gravity...
...becomes vague and imprecise: when he opts for "collectivization" and "community socialism" his arguments lack any mechanical framework for achieving them. Ever the pragmatist, Bond advocates issue-by-issue coalitions based on mutual self-interest as a primary source of black political power. But what specific strategy could transform tenuous ideology into hard reality? Bond does not respond with analytical content but chooses instead to rest upon the catch-all of "commitment...
...review luncheon with Hitchcock himself), approval of The Man because it at least wasn't critical about politicians (some deep cynicism in an order, I would think), and the first step in doubtless a long series to come in the reclamation of John Huston for auleurists on the tenuous excuse of Fat City. Sarris has retreaded old hopes and arguments with new sources, struggled to keep interest in prevalent debates. But he hasn't managed to conceal the poverty of his film philosophy, of which even he seems to have tired...
Popkin, whose field of specialty is Vietnam, has contended repeatedly that in publicizing his academic findings he fills a role analogous to that of a newsman. He has said that any requirement to answer questions with a "remote and tenuous relationship to the investigation" would have a "chilling effect" on the cooperation of his sources and thus violate his First Amendment rights to free speech and free press...