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...Establishment culture. The label never fit Amis comfortably; he was, at most, an Irritable Young Man, more likely to hoot than to rant. His use of humor as a means of subversion proved remarkably effective and durable. Works during the 1950s by other so-called Angries--novels by John Wain (Hurry on Down) and John Braine (Room at the Top), the plays of John Osborne (Look Back in Anger)--no longer excite much passion or even interest. Lucky Jim is still as fresh, and as capable of reducing a reader to helpless laughter, as it was 41 years...
...accompanying editorial, Simon Wain-Hobson of the Pasteur Institute in Paris compares the battle between virus and immune system to life in the city...
...That billions of virions and infected cells can be destroyed every day vividly illustrates the very hostile environment created by the immune system--the meanest of streets are nothing by comparison," Wain-Hobson wrote...
...Wain-Hobson also believes the research dictates that anti-HIV drugs should be given to patients earlier in their infection, continuing throughout the infection...
Encyclopedic is the list of people and objects that have offended the Amis sensibilities: shrinks, the British army, body odor on crowded Prague streetcars, bebop, racist profs at Nashville's Vanderbilt University (where he taught for a semester). Then there are such literati as Arnold Wesker, John Wain, Malcolm Muggeridge and Leo Rosten, author of the H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N stories, whose cardinal sin, apparently, was failing to ply a dinner guest (Amis) with sufficient booze...