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...energy-conserving ploys that Old Pro Jack Kramer has seen too much of. "Knowing Bobby as I do," says Kramer, "he will use every trick to stall. When they change sides, he will take two minutes to wipe off his racket. After a volley, he will stall before the next serve to catch his breath. My guess is that Margaret, who has a good disposition, will tolerate his tactics and not complain to the umpire. That will be a mistake...
...playwright's objective. Ionesco seems to want his audience to experience the absurdity of life, not to understand it. He wants us to give ourselves over to the experience as though it were reality itself, and accept the insights, the laughter and the horrors like a volley of random shots--some hit, and some don't "Conclusions" are not only unimportant, they contradict the salient point...
...ries of novels that would record the hardships of several generations of black women, both in Europe and the Americas. A Woman Named Solitude seems to be an attempt to get it all in - all the legend and history, the com passion and private sentiment, including a parting volley for the victims of the Warsaw ghetto. It does not quite work. Somewhere, not too long after the first chapter, Andre Schwarz-Bart for got that a fable must be a unicorn, not a zebra...
Taps for John Horne Burns (The Gallery), burned out and dead at 36. A volley for Tom Heggen (Mister Roberts), a suicide at 30. Honorable discharges for Irwin Shaw, James Jones, John Hersey and James Michener. Of that generation of promising World War II novelists, only two have combined the talent, versatility, nerve, style and combative instincts to make it in the great big American way that joins the oakleaf cluster of durable celebrity to money. Obviously one is Norman Mailer. The other, not usually thought of as having been a young war novelist, is Gore Vidal...
...volley of debate was matched by a sharp rise in the fighting on the ground in South Viet Nam (see following story). As it increased, the end of the war that Kissinger had so persuasively limned a week ago seemed slightly more elusive. It appeared that Kissinger's final session of "no more than three or four days" in Paris might take five or six days, and then be followed by another round of talks in Saigon. But the White House still remained confident that an agreement will be signed probably by the end of November...