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...that painter husband and Radcliffe for Barnard, and the above details, cheekbones included, pretty well describe Stephanie, the heroine of Mrs. Gray's first novel. This may be why Lovers and Tyrants flourishes only when it is masquerading as a memoir. The author has no trouble persuading the reader that there was once a small girl in Paris named Stephanie. She loved her father and was shattered by his death early in the war. She longed to be a boy and a naval hero, but was stifled by the clinging care of a lachrymose governess. "I never...
...power mower is by John Deere. When the ancestral crypt, where Stephanie's father lies, gets too crowded, the family simply shifts the bones of those who had made "bad marriages." The flavor of refugee New York in the '40s, classy but cashless, also comes to the reader engagingly filtered through the pride and prejudice of a precocious, lonely girl trying to make it hi a rich and snobby school...
...really offensive aspect of this newspaper is not its silly acceptance of a status quo that has never taken women seriously or of the conventional belief that women have a world of possibilities open to them; what any socially-minded or conscious reader is bound to find most abrasive is Equal Time's blatant appeal to cold self-interest...
...help of that memory, plus reinforcement from the presidential tapes that proved his charges, Dean chronicles his three years as the President's counsel, conspiring to contain Watergate, his eventual rebellion, revealing the collective White House guilt, and his imprisonment. Cutting through what is likely to be a reader's confused memories, he reveals precisely what he was thinking-and what he assumed Nixon and others meant-as they plotted to contain the scandal. The book also probes the often heartless world of high-powered lawyers and prosecutors bargaining over the fates of clients and defendants. (When Prosecution...
...incestuous, but as in Ada, incest has a private, figurative significance. Wilbur's and Eliza's love and loneliness are conveyed in a slurry of short scenes, part science fiction, part dreamlike shorthand, whose allusions the author seems unwilling to share fully with his reader. Instead of ideas, he offers whimsy; instead of feeling, merely sentiment. Vonnegut calls his method "situational poetry...