Word: gilchrist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Charles J. Ogletree, who last week accepted a tenure-track position on the Law School's faculty, is a defense lawyer for Lonnie L. Gilchrist. The former Merrill Lynch stockbroker was convicted of killing his boss a year...
...School Dean James Vorenberg '49 on Ogletree before Gilchrist's verdict came...
...Gilchrist's strength lies in her portrayal of girls and women like JeanAnne Lori, real hellions who drive everybody around them to distraction. One of the most famous is the precocious nine-year old heroine of Victory over Japan--for which Gilchrist won the 1984 American Book Award--Rhoda Manning. She is nasty--a smart, nasty child with a wild imagination. But the women in Drunk with Love are too flashy, too angry and too loud. They don't seem to suffer from living; they are born misfits, albeit amusing and erudite...
...Gilchrist's stories, there aren't any good ones. The relationships falter and die because of the men who are narrow-minded like Rhoda's father, or selfish like the married man in "Anna, Part I" or downright violent like the Lebanese immigrant in "The Emancipator" and the Black husband in "Memphis...
...last two are stories in which young blonde women are murdered by the men they marry for love. The stories fall short of convincing because it seems as if Gilchrist is trying to sound a warning against interracial marriages. In "First Manhattans" when it is apparent that Annalisa Livingston and Kenny, her Black chauffeur are going to sleep together, Gilchrist has Kenny think, "these white women go crazy if you make them come." At this point the reader balks. Is the verbal riot in the dialogue of the women just sound and fury camouflaging stereotype...