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...Company of Women has the same strengths and weaknesses as Final Payments. Both novels succeed on the durability and intelligence of central characters who command respect. Both novels have a tendency to slip into lugubriousness and slick schematism. Felicitas' college days contain too much stock footage from the dopey '60s, and though Cyprian's followers illustrate the spiritual dependency of women in a male-dominated church, they remain only illustrations - sketches of romanticized stoicism...
...Yale duo of Helen Hyde and Sue Doten might also prove unassailable in the breaststroke events, unless Crimson freshman Susan Kim can slip between them in the 50-yard contest. "New Wave" Kim, a precocious sprinter who dons Devo glasses and a gold lame vest before her races, could also place in the 100-yard individual medley...
...first casualty of the new chill was that enduring symbol of detente, Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin. During the past three Administrations, Dobrynin has been allowed to slip into the State Department building through its underground garage, thus keeping his visits private. But last week the Ambassador was informed that henceforth he must enter via the front door like all the other envoys. When his limousine nevertheless approached the garage as usual, it was turned back, a rebuff that seemed to underscore the verbal bellicosity...
Many of Bowen's stories were influenced by the work of Henry James and Virginia Woolf. What saves them from the pallid artiness of imitation is the author's taste for melodrama. She knows how to slip in the bizarre or improbable for the purpose of raising expectations, not eyebrows. Ghosts walk in some of these tales, and they are not explained away as wandering, ectoplasmic neuroses. They are what they are. Bowen's fiction is sometimes as strange as truth. In The Evil That Men Do-, a bored housewife writes a love letter...
With Dixon and Fleming in the guard slots. Crimson fans can expect a high-scoring, shot-'em' up sort of contest. The Warriors, whose defense has given up about 75 points per game so far this season--often slip into a slow-down offense and zone D. "Hopefully," says McLaughlin, "they won't play slow down against...