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This concern paralleled trends in other parts of society -- in the civil rights movement, for example, where leaders became more concerned with registering Negro voters than with desegregating public places; or in state government, where one of the major issues became the distribution of power between urban and rural areas...
The real case against Lucy is not that she is "unsympathetic"-some of the greatest characters in fiction are-but that she is theatrically unsatisfying and an ear-jarring bore. Saddest of all, Philip Roth's second novel starts beautifully, with a fine evocation of the Wisconsin mood and...
"When you started clipping stuff," says Marcus, "you saw that somebody was lying." Of course not everyone who sensed contradictions in the weeks following President Kennedy's assassination proceeded to devote the next three years to intensive study of it. Marcus never really explains why the subject so fascinated him...
Sir: As the anguished mother of a girl who is rated 25th in a class of almost 700 students, received in the 690's on College Boards, and was put on the waiting list of two Ivy League colleges, I was helped by your story to understand the situation...
Despite the complexities of the job, most regents find the work stimulating, devote roughly a month's time to the task each year. "It's like being a den mother for 30,000 students," claims University of Michigan Regent Mrs. Gertrude Huebner, who delights in the varied advice...