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Despite the letterman losses, McCurdy will have an excellent crop of field men. First in mind is triple-threat jumper Vincent Vanderpool-Wallace, a junior from the Bahamas who can triple, long, and high jump. Vanderpool-Wallace leaped to a Harvard record of 49 ft. 2 1/2 in. in the triple jump at an Oxford-Cambridge meet last year...
...given up so easily and flies off to some spiritual never-never land. There, it-or he-is instructed in higher wisdom by a bird called Chiang, whose lessons in life and philosophy and heightened consciousness take a hint from Dale Carnegie, a leaf from Dr. Norman Vincent Peale and a volume from Kahlil Gibran. Thus enlightened, Jonathan is apparently reborn. He returns to his flock and spreads the good word in a sort of Sermon on the Garbage Mount: "Listen, everybody! There's no limit to how high we can fly! We can dive for fish and never...
Instead of Rosemonde, he provides us with Francis and Vincent Silverware, by comparison uninteresting principals. Salamandre is about Rosemonde, who refuses to be pinned down to any describable ideology. But in Retour,Tanner has turned the scheme upside down. Retour is not about the Silvestres, but, as he warns, it is about their words...
...SILVESTRES--played well by Josee Destroop and Francois Marthouret--are working class radicals with intellectual friends. He is a gardener and she an employee of an art gallery. They lead a life which they perceive as intellectual and ideological stagnation. Vincent reads like The Looting of the Third World as he escorts a tree to a rich man's villa outside the city. Driving through Geneva, he counts his progress through the day by narrating his journey to himself, announcing street intersections and gear changes, in a sort of personal litany. Absorbed in himself, unattached...
...break his ennui, Vincent resolves to go to Africa, to post-revolutionary Algeria. A leave of absence, perhaps permanent, from his academic existence. It is certainly a bad decision, and his friends try to dissuade him. He is merely running away, they say, things will be no different. Or: in Algeria, his white skin will be enough to brand him as a symbol of the very thing which he is running away from. He finds himself unable to answer their objections, but nevertheless, he goes ahead and writes a friend already in Algeria, who promises to put Vincent and Francoise...