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...Cubans clearly had lost favor on the island. When a noon crowd watching the police station in Grenville saw 82nd Airborne officers arrive with Godwin Horsford, a well-known Coard supporter, in their custody, the spectators booed Horsford and shouted, "Cuban! Cuban!" Ermyn Campbell, who lived next door to the Cuban embassy in St. George's, recalled that "the Cubans were darling neighbors, very polite. But the U.S. is the best thing for us now. Things were coming so unstuck that I'm sure we were just snatched in time from the devil's own mouth...
...have an all-out family feud here, and in a family feud there are no winners," says William Godwin, student-body president. "The loser will be Auburn University...
Novelist Gail Godwin, 45, has taken up the theme of self-sufficient women with passion and precision. In four earlier works she offered that rarest literary character, the female rogue. This time, in A Mother and Two Daughters, her first bestseller, she soars through nearly 600 pages to modernize the message of Jane Eyre: would-be Rochesters stand back and let the heroines manage the estates. Godwin's women face their trials with refreshing distance, like the author. When a female interviewer asked, "Why do you feel a need to modulate suffering with sweet reasonableness and humor?" the author...
Only 6% of the voters, according to President Reagan's own pollster, Richard Wirthlin, completely believe in the New Right agenda. Nonetheless, the New Right leadership last week saw no need to compromise. The Moral Majority's Ron Godwin vowed renewed efforts for school prayer and against abortion. And Fund Raiser Richard Viguerie, searching for new motivating issues, called for an anti-elitist "new populist revolt." At a somber New Right election-night party, Viguerie declared, "If we win or lose, it's not our doing. God's will is going to be done...
...well. Their hopes have been so frequently dramatized and debated that they have turned into cliches of fiction before they have become matters of fact. The abundance of persuasive re-examination and the wealth of fine writing that have come from this woman's decade?Anne Tyler and Gail Godwin, Maxine Hong Kingston and Joyce Eliason, Ann Beattie and Elizabeth Hardwick and, yes, Joan Didion?have created a consciousness that is both more aware and a little restless, a little reckless, even, about mistaking gains for guarantees. Critic Janet Maslin summed up the plot of a movie this...