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SOPHIE'S CHOICE by William Styron; Random House; 515 pages...
ONLY CHILDREN by Alison Lurie Random House;257pages...
...Harvard, as in Washington, a random sampling of administrators reveals not everybody agrees that a Department of Education is such a bad idea. Even Bok, who is seen as a leader among University presidents who have voiced opposition to the department-creating legislation, says that "reasonable men" might come out on different sides of the issue after weighing the advantages and disadvantages of creating a department...
...right, but reduced to supporting status; his cute malapropisms ("America is a tough town") are cut entirely; only his accent, and the loony-tune vocabulary, remain to reassure. The concert was like a childhood Saturday spent with the strange little boy down the block. Kaufman takes skits out for random amusement like a kid pulling old toys from a chest...
...simply, Thomas argues that the overwhelming tendency in nature is toward symbiosis, union, harmony. The post-Darwinian view of life as a constant, murderous struggle, Tennyson's personification of nature "red in tooth and claw," do not match the facts that Thomas has seen. Even what looks like random slaughter may be the opposite...