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Expected to sell for about $10 when it appears on store shelves this week, the kit consists of a blue plastic tray of diluted chemicals, four test tubes, five "dropping bottles," a funnel, magnifying glass, microscope slides, a smoke chart and parts for assembling a "smoke trap." One of the experiments described in the instruction booklet shows children how to test the effect of phosphates on algae by adding fertilizer to pond water in a jar; another calls for testing the acid or alkaline content of water in their home washing machine by putting five drops of a chemical (called...
Nuclear Egg Rolls. Yes, there is a showdown on the high seas when the U.S. Navy intercepts Chinese whaling ships in which the missiles have been concealed like nuclear egg rolls. Salinger throws in a Mafia scheme to turn Santa Clara into a tourist trap, complete with capos still in their Godfather costumes. There is an implausible love story and even a touch of self-caricature. At his worst, Salinger is merely perfunctory, as if laboring under the realization that his "topical" novel is already eight years behind before it starts. At best, he uses his own Washington experience with...
...appeared to be caught in a trap. On the military front, it is already withdrawing its forces from Viet Nam. On the political front, the U.S. Senate has voted an amendment to the draft-extension bill that is remarkably similar to the Communist proposal: a withdrawal in nine months, conditional on an agreement within 90 days for the return of prisoners. (The measure has not been approved by the House, nor is it binding on the Administration...
...does a martyr escape from family, from original sin, even from Australia? Like Joyce & Co., Keneally is better at seeing the trap than seeing a way out. "We're cemented, you, me, them," Barbara cries. In the end, Keneally looses a Jehovah-like flood on the outback and the Glovers, washing himself clean of his creation. But in the meantime, writing like an angel, he has forcefully raised an ancient question: What is the demon in man that so often makes him a monster to those condemned to love him-including himself...
...many of them have been so bad, that it's easy to become skeptical of anyone trying to write about the revolution in human spirit. The usual checklist of "youth culture" rhetoric-radicals, drugs, sex, "the establishment"-is so common, that it's become easy to fall into the trap of thinking that no one has anything really important or sensitive to say. It's become easy to read a jacket cover blurb like "Sonzski may be as meaningful for his generation as Salinger was for his" and, as I did, want to throw...