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Bill Veeck signed a midget to play major league baseball. He gave a yacht to one of the outstanding pitchers on his team. This spring various lucky bettors received prizes at Suffolk Downs--from a case of champagne to a steer. It is unfortunate that a man of such rare promotional genius should be fettered by local politics. In the end Veeck's way will bring more money to the state coffers than anyone else's way, and that is what the state is after anyway...
More seriously, the novel documents the assimilation of whole radical movements into impotent forms of institutionalized dissent. The various peace and ban-the bomb movements become so large they are powerless. In the midst of self-satisfied, ineffectual dissenters, one baffled American...
...Dustin plays the hero, Jack Crabb, who survives every imaginable peril until the age of 121, which ought to put the makeup men on their mettle. The putty looms large in Balsam's role as well; he plays a sly con artist whose enraged victims relieve him at various times of a hand, an ear, an eye, a leg and his scalp. And Faye? No makeup required. In her role as a gospel-spouting nymphomaniac, she performs in several stages of undress -once on the floor and once on a bed, where Hoffman pours gold coins on her belly...
Such a basically unified Lutheran Church could come to have considerable influence. As Lutherans see it, neither of the two other major Protestant groupings now emerging-the Protestants in the ecumenical Consultation on Church Union and the various Baptist groups -will be "credal": they will not, as groups, adhere to a fixed creed. On the other hand, nine million Lutherans with an orthodox set of beliefs that include such traditional doctrines as the Trinity and original sin would occupy a unique and important position between the rest of American Protestantism and Roman Catholicism...
...debate within the council chambers was much the same. Discussing rent control as an issue of public policy is difficult at best, for its consequences are highly ambiguous and an overall evaluation depends mostly on the weight one places on their various aspects...