Pauling is enough of a scientist to acknowledge the existence of his critics and doubters(T)he American Medical Assn, the American Cancer Society, and the editors of the leading medical journals have not yet recognized that vitamin supplements in the optimum amounts have value-and, although he is decidedly a true believer, he does not ask us to take his pronouncements as a matter of faith. To be the first up was, of course, part of the motivation, but the authors also seem fueled by a desire to travel through "the meeting place of cultures, the birthplace of religions" Both climbers also are accomplished authors and photographers, and, in this 1982 collaboration, Peter Hillary's sense of wonder and excitement blends well with Graeme Dingle's emphasis on strategy NOTEWORTHY: Good Enough to Dream, Roger Kahn (Signet: $3. 95. When you have selected a book, wrap it with a promise to read it aloud. "The puzzle: If there is a God and He isn't in hiding, He will have left an unambiguous message.
In 1953, when Sir Edmund Hillary became the first man to conquer Mount Everest, a curious piece of news surfaced: He and his Sherpa guide, Tenzing Norgay, had fought giant footprints in the snow, refueling belief that the Abominable Snowman does indeed exist. An interesting premise, but one that's difficult to sustain for an entire novel, and so the author turns his attentions to the sheriff whose duty it is to track down the girl, keep peace in the town, tend to his own personal memories and miseries, and, in the process, become somewhat obsessed with the strange woman who haunts the park bench. 3, Mircea Eliade; Alf Hiltebeitel and Diane Apostolos Cappadona (University of Chicago. That struggle is now history; Spicer lost and the English departments won. , is not the least of Stern's achievements in this delicate fabrication of tough prose and tender adjustment of sentiment. Although she was a Communist, Maria, a lesbian artist, "liked the songs of Noel Coward, Mabel Mercer, and Marlene Dietrich" Tex, who runs a bookstore, ushers the youth into a sense of the "gay world" which stirs feelings of "half-thrill and half-fear" Another friend, William Everett Hunton, "would flounce and languish around me but turn gravely masculine around the other law students" Lou, with whom he finds sex is never love, recognizes "as everyone had to, that homosexuality was sick; in fact, he insisted on the sickness" The protagonist's relations with his father were never easy, "his anger between us, mysterious as the stone the Muslims worship" His mother, divorced, worries about what will happen to him: "All your fine gifts of mind will be destroyed, your reputation and character" His therapist warns that homosexuality will condemn him to an embalmed adolescence.
Deeply distressed by the classroom power of New Criticism, Spicer deliberately began to write "unteachable" poems. She finds herself recovering a taste for life, enjoying Peter's sweet looks and open sexuality. He precedes his "History and Interpretation" of the structure with a poem in which "the window of time" appears to him He sees ancient faces that stare back with eyes of obsidian. His story, which can be read in 10 minutes, takes an uneasy old man (who is us) through the anxieties, indignities, boredom, outrages and sheer terrors of a thorough examination in that advanced technological machine, a modern hospital.
It is as this last that it succeeds best: Many of these ancient schools put the most beautiful American college campuses to shame, though one wishes so many photos of biology field trips, swimming pools and students hunched over desks weren't included. Then come the tales, a marvelous assortment selected from published (but often out-of-print) collections by the likes of pioneer collectors Lady Wilde, Robin Flower and Jeremiah Curtin, and from unpublished manuscripts in private and state-owned archives. There are stories here on most of the subjects I've mentioned, plus many others, equally involving, such as those about the banshee, the secret habits of cats and hares, and Ireland's thumb-sucking super-hero Finn MacCumhail (or, as I prefer, MacCool. Garthoff makes, drawing from years of government service, some of it at the eye of the arms control hurricane, years on which he now looks back from his desk at the Brookings Institution in Washington, where he is a senior fellow specializing in Soviet foreign and defense policy. "Their Maginot Line in the sky cannot provide Mutual Assured Survival. This year's guest editor, Gail Godwin, writes in her introduction to what is admittedly a subjective sampling that "the motto of this collection might well be: 'Tell me something I need to know-about art, about the world, about human behavior, about myself' " Some of these stories tell us things we already know Some tell us things we may not want to know. William Coolidge, the inventor of the vacuum tube, is mentioned. But unfortunately, subsequent hijackings and the terrorist attacks on the Rome and Vienna airports mean that parts of his analysis are already outdated.
These works represented an extraordinary fusion of medieval and renaissance themes but went largely unnoticed by modern scholars, dazzled by the revolutionary brilliance of Descartes and Locke. "She imagines men and children lolling in a steamy pool, pumping Exercycles, straining on Nautilus machines. The authors, a professor of finance at Montreal's McGill University and a European management consultant, write that "the Japanese have launched their Second Wave of competition" aimed at achieving in banking and investment services the kind of victories their industries scored earlier in cars and television sets. These elements are inextricably fused with the horror of descent into the yawning void, and the stories linger provocatively in the mind long after one has read them. Americans "have so arranged life that a man may have a home, a family, love, companionship, domesticity, and fatherhood, yet remain an active citizen; a woman must 'choose; either live alone, unloved, unaccompanied, uncared for, homeless, childless, with her work in the world for sole consolation, or give up all world service for the joys of love, motherhood and domestic service" Although those particular words were written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman in 1897, Hewlett finds them bleakly applicable today, after nearly a century of agitation, rhetoric and ill-deserved self-congratulation. And, like Disney after Walt or Metro after Mayer, the old place is never quite the same; profitable perhaps, as Time Inc. Smith, a British writer, has researched all facets (political, social, ecclesiastical and individual) of the issue on both sides of the Atlantic with splendid diligence.
became a major operator of pay television systems and, through its Home Box Office and Cinemax operations, a significant maker and distributor of pay television programming. Matos Moctezuma served as general coordinator of Proyecto Templo Mayor when President Miguel Lopez Portillo ordered the excavation in 1978. Kafka and, to a lesser degree, Musil, imparted a universal quality to alienation. Perhaps most symptomatic of the guarded prognosis for "Waiting for Next Week" the walk-on and cameo parts are better realized and more lively than any of the Ashers. Stuart, who stank with officious virtue, dwindles appealingly into a moderate young man of excessive good will. It would be all right to be left with this strummed lyre: Ulysses is far away on his wine-dark sea, and Penelope is weaving a whole new plot, a whole new poesy.