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...future is framed in political terms, no one better understands the sexual division of labor than John Irving. His first three novels are Setting Free the Bears. The WaterMethod Man, and The 158-Pound Marriage. They went nowhere, but they are being re-issued in paperback. It seems that this book was written for much the same reason that Faulkner sensationalized Sanctuary--after three, the author begins to wonder where the fame and fortune are. But underneath the sensationalism and violence there is a very good book. The best of 1978. We're landing, and who knows where...
With the easy wisdom of hindsight, it is simple enough to cast the young Perkins as the great innovator; and yet, Perkins did not completely share the enthusiasm of writers like Hemingway and Pound for building all literature anew. Perkins, above all, was searching for what Fitzgerald called "the real thing," for Max clung to no dogmatic view of literature and asked only for writing that would vicariously bring readers a little closer to real life...
...news conference that congressional passage at long last of his battered energy legislation should trim the U.S. trade deficit and bolster the dollar. Next day the dollar hit yet another record low against the deutsche mark, dropped against the Swiss and French francs, the Dutch guilder and the British pound, and even sank to a 31-month low against the weak Italian lira. The apparent reason: moneymen concluded that if this is all the hope Carter has to offer, the dollar is still in trouble. Confidence in the dollar has so eroded that it sometimes plunges sharply these days with...
...Japanese Woman's Right to Equal Employment, Catherine Brown, law clerk to U.S. Court of Appeals, Pound...
...Japan, for instance. This nation will be the topic of two lectures scheduled for tomorrow. At 12:45 p.m., Catherine Brown, a 1978 graduate of Harvard Law and currently a clerk to the U.S. Court of Appeals, will talk about "The Japanese Woman's Right to Equal Employment," in Pound...