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In The Club Bedroom, Auchincloss illustrates the dreadful fate that awaits a poor working girl who marries into a top family, and who expects kith, kin or anyone else to respect her unspeakable class predicament. She loses her room at the woman's club. A Harvard-Yardley soap opera...
But if the whole truth can never be known, the partial observations that make up the commission's report are dreadful enough. In a 300-page book delivered last month, it offered the most exhaustive study of U.S. crime to be made in decades. It described a situation so...
> "This has always been the country of easy answers-easy in the sense of being simple and straightforward rather than complicated. We're the country of the endless frontier, of the big sky, of manifest destiny, of unlimited resources, of 'Go west, young man,' of opportunity for...
Desert of Failure. The terrain itself is the real villain of the novel. The "territory" is a dreadful place of waterless rivers where turtles encrust a rock like scabs, and the "so-oopwha wind" reddens the sky with sandstorms. The only hope for anyone in such a place is to...
Vivien also admits that directors are troublesome, especially when they try to explain characterization to her. That includes her husband, who once directed Vivien in his television play, The Lovers. "Never again," she says. "It was dreadful. I'm not good with him when I'm under his...