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...part of a splinter intelligentsia-Poet-Instructor Robert Hillyer, Classicist Dudley Fitts et al.-and kept flailing away at a novel that appeared early in his sophomore year. Aptly titled Confusion, it concerned a shimmering young sylph named Cerise D'Atreé who was caught in the Fitzgerald undertow and dragged to an early Jazz Age death...
Alcoa Hour (Sun. 9 p.m., NBC). Teresa Wright in Undertow...
Very little has been done since then to implement world trade's congressional victory. A recent series of Administration actions gives evidence that the traditional undertow of protectionism is still stronger than the tide of free trade. Items...
...thousand letters (all of which he answered). But to Novelist Wouk, a cool customer in a superheated profession, The Caine is simply "Novel No. 3" (No. 1 was Aurora Dawn; No. 2, City Boy), and he does not worry for an instant that Marjorie may be lost in the undertow of The Caine's popularity. This unique assurance is typical of Herman Wouk, a unique figure in American letters...
...Hanoi there was an undertow of fear. There were more tanks, more armored cars in the streets, more Vietnamese guardsmen drilling in the Jardin Botanique. There were more bandaged soldiers in the grim De Lanessan hospital, and there were many more planes in the sky. Sometimes the French 105-mms. pounded unseen targets unusually close to the suburbs; or an alien burst of machine-gun fire slashed across one of the two city airfields; or a trigger-happy Senegalese sentry fired and shouted in the dark. French and Vietnamese housewives were finding everyday items much harder to get, much more...