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Sexual practices probably change far less over the years than do people's ways of talking about them-or not talking. Gay does, however, examine such oddities as Edith Wharton's asking her mother about her wedding night, "What will happen to me?" and Mama answering only that men and women are "made differently," and "Don't ask me any more silly questions." But in his wanderings through the high and low cultures of half a dozen nations, Gay finds far more evidence of bourgeois couples coupling. And procreating. And writing down all kinds of details...
...Gramercy Park is a bit too comfortable to be considered typical, and it has distinguishing characteristics one would not find in most small towns. An artistic tradition, for one thing. Over the 150 years of its existence the area has been home to William Dean Howells, Henry James, Edith Wharton, Horace Greeley. Herman Melville lived out his life here, embittered by the public's dismissal of Moby Dick. Stephen Crane finished The Red Badge of Courage in his place on 23rd Street. Nathanael West, author of The Day of the Locust worked as night manager in the Kenmore Hotel...
...Philadelphia's first black mayor. Four of the nation's six largest cities (Los Angeles, Detroit, Chicago and Philadelphia) and 15 others with populations over 100,000 will now be led by blacks. Goode, 45, who has a management degree from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, dresses in Main Line corporate fashion. He is sober to a fault, relying on position papers far more than polemics. Said Goode after his election: "People will see by my actions that I want to be mayor of all the people...
Goode, the city's managing director until the campaign, has run for the office in textbook style, waving from old-fashioned motorcades, which snake almost daily through the city's black and ethnic neighborhoods. The Wharton School graduate soberly stresses his 17-year record of public service and painstakingly delineated "multipoint programs." His economic development plan is so detailed, Egan sneers, that "Wilson Goode has more positions than...
...America's business-school students head to class this fall, they are being greeted by an extraordinarily large number of new deans. More than 100 schools, including Wharton, the University of California at Berkeley and Carnegie-Mellon, have installed new directors, many of whom intend to change curriculums and set new priorities...