On The Road and The Fall Book Reviews
Kerouac's On The Road is reviewed as a wild, ebullient cross country chase through 1947-49 with Sal Paradise as stand in for Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg as Carlo Marx. Camus The Fall is praised for sharp aphorism and self confession though noted as dense and morally complex. The piece weighs style, influence, and lasting impact while noting era changes.
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Kerouac
All Beardom
Neil Cassidy
Dean Moriarty
Dharma Bums
Subterraneans
Sal Paradise
Allen Ginsberg
Carlo Marx
Clamence
Camus
Hanover College Faculty Forms Bowling League
The Hanover faculty organizes a six team mixed bowling league in its second term with four meetings so far. Teams bowl each Monday after faculty meetings at Ritter's Lanes and include the Spareribs, Purple Somethings, Dueces, Strike-outs, Pinsplitters, and Pinpointers. Members comprise professors, spouses, and several doctors and staff.
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Hanover College
Hanover
Ritter’s
Charles Fox
Keith White
John Worley
Jim Copeland
Dean Harold Haverkamp
Robert Dunwell
Enos Pray
Donald Steiner
Stanley Totten
Leonard Wilson
Randall Johnson
W. G. Fiedorow
Helen Knierim
Louis Kaczmarek
Frank Barnes
Robert McClew
Ralph Burress
Henry van Leeuwen
Russian-Born Prof Views Language Study
LARRY JAQUITH profiles Vasil Fiedorow born near Moscow who fled to Germany in 1943 and moved to Belgium before arriving in the United States in 1955. He teaches French and Russian at Hanover College since 1963 and argues language mastery depends on real use and desire rather than forced classroom study.
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Moscow
Russia
Vasil Fiedorow
Germany
Fiedorows
United Nations
Belgium
England
South America
Mr. Fiedorow
United States
University of Washington
Far Eastern Institute
Hanover College
Fiedorow
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Jack Kerouac
Viking Press
America
Sal
Albert Camus
Alfred A. Knopf
Jean-Baptiste Clamence
Justin O'Brian
Amsterdam
Mexico City
Paris
Martha Price
Wasil Fiedorow
By Larry Jaquith
Europe
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Company OF Indiana, Inc
Harper’s
Rexall Drug Store
Madison
Indiana
Inglis Drug Store
Oscar C. Bear & Son
China
Silver
The
First National Bank
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