GAMBLING AND PSYCHING
Klynt’f Law. By Elliott Baker. Michael Joseph. 263 pp. $9.75. Klynt is the latest creation of a film producer of comedies with an undertone of pain. Professor Klynt, nee Kleinman, displays the typical sour-sweet mocking self-destructive humour of the emancipated Jew. As a professor of psychology whose special interest is the field beyond perception, of parapsychology, he puts this to practical use in establishing a team to beat the casinos of Las Vegas, Interspersed with the movement towards climax of the team of psychic
students are pages from the professor's hypothesis in his textbook that is to be borne out by a milliondollar profit.
Elliott Baker's highly entertaining novel rolls along on a wave of enthusiastic writing. It is decorated with such side flourishes as a biting caricature of a housewife-student who copies down even the lecturer’s “good morning,” the proceedings of a fund allocations committee, and the breakup of a marriage to a sanitised allAmerican backstroke champion. — RALF UNGER.
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