By Robert Coover
A anonymous rider plods in the course of the barren region towards a dusty Western city shimmering at the horizon. In his most modern novel, Robert Coover has taken the regularly occurring kind of the Western and grew to become it within out. The lonesome stranger reaches the city - or really, it reaches him - and he turns into a part of its gunfights, saloon brawls, bawdy homes, educate robberies, and, in fact, the alternative among the saloon chanteuse or the sweet-faced schoolmistress whom he loves. all through, Robert Coover reanimates the Western epics of Zane gray and Louis L'Amour, infusing them with the Beckettian echoes, designated comedian strength, and exuberant prose that experience made him probably the most influential figures in modern American literature. it's, because the Washington submit publication global placed it, "a fast-forward, ribald imaginative and prescient of the yankee West, a free-for-all that slides from surreal to ridiculous like a circus-goer's grin via a funhouse reflect . . . a heady frisson, a salon leisure, one helluva ride."
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Boal testified that it was known among newspaper men that when Pickrell was in Washington he could be found in Senator's King's office, and that he had seen the doctor there—with his coat off, dictating to a stenographer. Direct questioning also brought out that Dr. Pickrell was the author of material Senator King had presented to the Senate Committee of 1922. Small wonder the doctor had been so lavish with his praise. Ex-Congressman Metz was inclined to be irascible on the witness stand, and complained bitterly at questions of Republican Senator Arthur R.
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The process of extracting nitrogen from the air had been invented by Dr. Fritz Haber, of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute, and the nitrogen production of the Badische plants, directed by Dr. Carl Bosch, had been on such a vast scale that for the first time Germany had become independent of the great nitrate beds of Chile. The one great lesson which the I. G. leaders learned from the first World War was that their original pattern of industrial conquest had not been sufficiently broad to prevent the twofold disaster of the armistice and of the loss of most of their branches and properties in the United States.