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Readers of Martin Amis' earlier fictions -- notably Success, Money: A Suicide Note and Einstein's Monsters -- will find that he outdoes himself in London Fields. It could even be said he sometimes undoes himself, with his verbal brilliance and command of literary technique. No matter. As an uninhibited high-energy performance, as a bold conception of a world tumbling toward a loveless void, this British best seller is destined for a large and divided readership...
...interesting to note that The Father marks the last of Strindberg's "antiwoman" plays, and his later works feature more sympathetic female protagonists. But this play makes no attempt to sympathize with, or even understand, Laura's position. Instead, she is portrayed as the incarnation of spite, a malignant crone whose sole goal is the destruction of her husband's authority and sanity...
Harris and Greeley argue that the nation may be experiencing a negative backlash to the sexual revolution. They note, for example, that 51% of women under 35 regretted having had a premarital sexual encounter (though only 16% of men felt that way). Meanwhile, according to another poll, the percentage of Americans who disapproved of extramarital sex rose from...
...disturbing. For, as the best pollsters recognize, the deepest questions of life -- or politics, or journalism -- can be probed only in the most primitive manner with the blunt instrument of a poll. Thus readers entering upon stories peppered with numbers and percentage signs should arm themselves with a mental note: POLL AHEAD -- PROCEED AT YOUR OWN RISK...
...Editor's note: The Crimson used the word "aristocracy" in the sense of "a privileged minority or upper class, usually of inherited wealth and social position," [Webster's New World Dictionary]. The Office of Admissions openly acknowledges that legacy status entitles applicants to preferential consideration...