Word: walke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Western scientists, it seemed obvious that the flight of the space dogs was merely a prelude to a major step in Russia's manned space program, which seems to have been marking time since Cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov took the world's first space walk a year ago. And it left little doubt that the Soviets are doggedly determined to put the first man on the moon...
...WALK by John Hersey. 246 pages. Knopf...
...hell-that was the way he felt. All churned up in his guts, but kinda fuzzy and helpless, too. Like a popgun without a cork. As a freshman, he had been an eager overachiever. Now he was cutting his favorite class because it was just too far to walk. The only thing he really hungered for was a sense of cool. Like his buddy, Chum Breed, a shadowy man who wore elbow patches on brand-new jackets, and pooh-poohed nearly everything. You name it, and old Chum Breed had done it-from sniffing airplane glue at 14 to surfing...
Because the truth nettles far more men than it ever sets free, Too Far to Walk is not likely to be received with much enthusiasm on college campuses. Certainly Mersey's pitiless commentary on cant on the campus will miff many people, and both students and faculties will yelp over his satiric swipes at militant protestniks, world changers and plain and assorted knuckleheads. Obviously Hersey has tuned his fine ear to the contemporary campus (he finished the book shortly before his appointment as master of Yale's Pierson College). His very funny student demonstration against majors...
...whole, however, Too Far w Walk earns only a B -as good fiction; the Faustian bit may be clever, but it is too shallow to take seriously. It is Mersey's deft portrayal of the collegiate scene that makes Too Far worth walking for. Parents who have survived the ordeal of pushing a son or two through college will certainly learn a thing or two. Especially if, like Sophomore Fist's father, they have ever had that choked-up feeling in communicating, and have ended up saying hopelessly: "Why don't you get your hair...