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...addition of children and their own narratives compounds the problem of narration. As in Faulkner, it is sometimes difficult to know who is speaking and what he is talking about. One poignant example is found in a chapter entitled "The Basement." The beginning of the two-page chapter talks about the children and their mother, Alpha, in the third person; and this chapter, which points out the importance of the house and land to the children, ends in a rather Faulknerian ambiguity: "And this place our mother didn't mind one bit, or so it seems now, or was then...
...This month, for instance, Western Islands printed up a hardbound biography of Patrick Henry, pegged its retail price at $10, and then sent the books out free as an incentive for renewing subscriptions to the Society's monthly American Opinion magazine. The Society also sends copies out to local chapters across the country for the chapter library. Gotch showed me boxes of materials, including back issues of publications and reprints of articles, as well as books, which Belmont sends to the chapters. "There's fifty dollars worth of stuff in each of those boxes, retail value," he said reverently...
...works of greater sensitivity and better detail. Kozol offers neither a new approach to the problem, nor new evidence. In fact, he seems to feel little obligation to base any of his conclusions on evidence, and relies instead on instinct. This weakens Kozol's effort, for the most convincing chapter in the book is one based on his own observations and experience in free schools. He argues that "open" schools can be just as politically indoctrinating as traditional schools, and are all the more dangerous because they bill themselves, and are perceived to be progressive. Kozol's insight surfaces when...
Holcomb and officials of the Harvard chapter of the Local 26 of the Cooks and Pastry Cooks Association will meet Friday with Personnel Office staff to discuss the warnings...
Macho Politics. Mo also rates a chapter in The Women of Watergate, but then so does every other female however remotely connected to the scandal. This paste-up of old clippings serves principally as a reminder that Watergate created not just victimized wives but several heroines: Washington Post Publisher Katharine Graham, Prosecutor Jill Wine Volner, Representatives Barbara Jordan and Elizabeth Holtzman. Aside from that, the book sags with speculation ("Yet there is a great deal that [Pat Ellsberg] does not say, but it is impossible to believe she has not felt") and shameless padding ("Jill Volner certainly did not grow...