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...case of NBC's ALF and The Cosby Show, were advanced by separate early deals between the producers and the Writers Guild. CBS, which otherwise had little in reserve, hoarded fresh episodes of Murder, She Wrote, and this week starts new installments of The Cavanaughs, starring Barnard Hughes and Christine Ebersole...
...best mystery of the year to date is in fact a splendid mainstream novel exploring a theme that links almost all good mysteries with the larger literary tradition: the burden of the past. Robert Barnard, a specialist in snide japery (Death of an Old Goat), turns deceptively gentle and affectionate in The Skeleton in the Grass (Scribner's; 199 pages; $15.95), which focuses on the subtleties of the relationship between the teenage daughter of a poor British clergyman and the aristocratic family she is sent to join, as something between servant and family member, during the fateful summer...
Just when these events have wrung the utmost sympathy and admiration for the Hallams from the reader, Barnard shakes the kaleidoscope: in a tour de force passage of inner monologue, the visiting girl re-examines some seemingly unimportant events to expose how the family's pieties about mankind have masked a cruel indifference to individual people. The field of potential suspects thereby doubles to include the noble clan. More important, what happened on a moonlit lawn, and why, becomes less a puzzle and more a metaphor for a social system on the brink of change. Throughout, Barnard's narrative never...
...Barnard President Ellen Futter, at Barnard College, New York City: "Education is empowerment -- individual and national . . . For the United States of America to be populated by a citizenry that is uneducated is a prescription for disaster and a sentence to everlasting mediocrity...
...planning to be a management consultant. He wants, he says, "to get broader exposure to what is going on in the business world, meet a lot more people, and work with a team in an environment that is supposedly not as cutthroat as banking." Susan O'Brien, 22, a Barnard senior, had been planning a career on Wall Street, but now may look elsewhere. "I think about my friends who work down there. Their lives and careers are on edge," she says...