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Novelist Thomas Perry's answers (which seem to be, respectively, "quite hard" and "not much") have carried him handily through three highly readable if not altogether believable episodes in the career of Jane Whitefield, a lone operative of stunning beauty and bone-crushing martial-arts skills. She is half Seneca Indian and half Irish American, and her useful talent is to function as a very unofficial one-woman witness-relocation program, helping people disappear into new identities when the forces of evil are about to pounce. She thinks of herself as "a guide," and she most often guides with brainpower...
...surface, "Man and Superman" is a delightfully Shavian romantic comedy which reverses conventional roles by making the woman the vigilant pursuer and the man the hapless prey. The woman, Ann Whitefield (Kristin Flanders), is past mistress of twisting men around her little finger, and she has designs on her childhood companion, Jack tanner (played with dynamic vigor by Don Reilly), a young man and a decided taste for overbearing oratory. Much to his consternation, Jack is appointed one of Ann's guardians after her father's death--the other one being a confirmed old conservative, Roderick Ramsden (Alvin Epstein...
Many besides Thayer called the poem their brainchild. The most persistent claim was that of George Whitefield D'Vys. Although his story changed in a few times, one version had D'Yys writing the verse in Cambridge Common with his mother. As he finished the poem, a runway horse forced them to leave. D'Yys returned to find his poem stolen...
None of which is to say that the overseers and the Corporation coexisted in a state of marital bliss. On the contrary, the two battled persistently over such diverse issues as the rectitude of itinerant evangelist George Whitefield to the quality of the University food...
...part, Lydia Whitefield of AT&T emphasized that the latest wave of transfers was a "precautionary move." The company has commissioned its own study, which will explore the effects of clean-room operations not only on expectant women but on men and on women of childbearing age who are not pregnant. Meanwhile, all those employees may seek transfers out of the clean room...