Regan's "For the Record: From Wall Street to Washington" The former White House chief of staff's book, for which HBJ paid $1 million, will now be in stores by May 16. The bare bones are not unfamiliar-how the search for security and fulfillment of one group in South Africa has led to the domination of all the others. On the Scene Productions explains that the live satellite approach "reduces the exhausting traveling conditions and expensive touring costs" that are incurred on regular book tours. Canin's story originally appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, as did two other "Bests"Lily" by Jane Smiley, and Peter Meinke's "The Piano Tuner" Meinke's story is a decreasingly comic vision of paranoia borne out in the menacing person of a coarse intruder who arrives to tune a piano and stays to bully its owner. A restlessness comes over the uncle, as if life's clock had stopped and it was up to him to restart it. "I was a sissy.
That was what he called "the dark side" But his worst depressions were often lightened by his vision of what life could be. The translation itself is readable, mostly accurate (although it obscures several difficulties, as reviewers in England were quick to point out) and serviceable. Two young men working as clerks in a New York book publishing house decided to chuck it all and paddle a canoe from New York to Nome, finally achieving the Northwest Passage sought in vain by explorers from Hudson to Mackenzie. Finally, 50 years later, comes this first (and probably last) account of the longest canoe trip in history: Shell Taylor's recollections to outdoor newspaperman Rick Steber It is deliciously entertaining. Here we find Dietrich and Lombard; Preston Sturges and Billy Wilder; the Lubitsch touch, and the much heavier one of Cecil B De Mille They had careers in those days. He spent the next four years in the Treasury, contriving to help keep afloat a war he increasingly came to despise, not for what it was doing to Europe, or Britain, but for what it was doing to his Bloomsbury friends: mainly turning them into conscientious objectors doing alternative service in the farmyards of their friends' country estates. Keynes' task in the Treasury was to finance Britain and all its allies while maintaining financial supremacy over America. A very real danger of superficiality and what I would call trivialization" The stories in the volume bear this out The ones that fail are extended, self-indulgent complaints.
Shock kept her for three years "out to lunch; then, at 50, she began gaining from the Latin binomials of Linnaeus some order over at least the chaos of her surrounding vegetable world. From the first ancestor he is able to trace, Qin Guan, a poet, scholar and official born in 1049, before William the Conqueror sat on the English throne, Ching encounters a society that is remarkably similar to China today. Not great literature, certainly, but Richard Frede's ability to describe both the hospital work and the people doing it is remarkably on target He did his medical homework carefully and well The situations are real, accurate and dramatic. I dress in loose dark clothing, and I talk like a library training student" When she and her director, her best friend since college, suffer "creative differences" they spew shrewish personal insults at each other for seven nasty pages. It is both a man and a generation that discovered a few quiet but lethal answers to all but the most extreme spasms of totalitarian hegemony: Don't lie; don't weaken; speak when you can and when you can't, speak softly and then, in a little while, louder; and finally, know that your own absurdity is nonetheless less absurd than that of your rulers.
And we are shown by conspicuous example that Dean is well read enough to form his own literary judgments. In this struggle, the adolescent Dovie has few allies: Her brother and father are present in the novel, but not privy to the bond between mother and daughter; the family, friends and neighbors too stand outside this bond and cannot register its loss. Mark describes his experience making a master tape: "I was able to borrow $10,000. Dryden was a great writer, but this kind of thing showed what the laurels would become: a kind of poetic poison ivy. Every time Simon Leys publishes a brilliant little book on contemporary China "The Burning Forest" is his fourth, he tells us that it will be his last. Philip Randolph, an ardent socialist activist, had to build the first permanent black labor union, the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, virtually without the aid of the American Socialist Party. She recounts animal trickster tales, reintroducing Bruh Rabbit and Tar Baby.
"Spitfire Autumn" beats out a familiar counterpoint between the London of 1944, where a girl could miraculously make invalid soldiers walk by sweeping them onto the dance floor, and the London of 1985, where her nephew sells British medals to German collectors, and a young Cabinet minister warns that the days of miracles are past Should Wetherell be hailed as a second Cheever? Not yet. This book doesn't support such hyperbole, but it does argue that fears of Japanese banks and brokerage houses dominating world financial markets are well founded. Reed unravels so many interlocking cliches at once that a diagram of the story would look like The Stack, the four-level intersection of the Harbor, Pasadena, San Bernardino and Hollywood freeways. A relative was impaled on a stake alongside the Voortrekker hero, Piet Retief, after the infamous encounter with the Zulu king, Dingaan. A clear introduction to Marx and a clear, carefully developed argument that Marx's vision was insular Nominated in 1985 for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. . Nevertheless, the weakness of any collection is that similarities of theme serve to dilute and weaken. Hispanics want the hispanization of America" Frankly, I do not believe that Langley has proven this assertion, nor do the sources he cites lend weight to such an ominous charge.
Most stunning of all, perhaps, is The Medieval Woman (New York Graphic Society: $12. 95, a small but brilliantly illustrated volume beautifully bound, showing in full-color illustrations of the period how women lived and worked. Two more offerings display art by women: Great Women Painters (Abbeville, 505 Park Ave, New York, N. Y. Gordon Walker writes florid movie scripts and acts King Lear on the stage. He was a man of enormous industry, chiefly remembered as the author of multitomed college texts in both his disciplines. Francis' "true" story is the daily, monotonous unfolding of the same things: prayer, fasting, and small and large (but almost invariably mundane) deeds of service and love-items that are difficult to interpret, or even report more than once.
He takes us far beyond the cliche of a city "sacred to three major religions: He gives us secular Jews and religious Jews and fanatically religious Jews (including a brilliant cameo of a rabbi and Knesset member who's a dead-on ringer for Meir Kahane; he knows there are Christian Arabs-one of the detectives, for instance-as well as Muslim, caught in a strange limbo of their own; he shows us pious righteous Christians and Jew-hating Christians. But the material is so fascinating that a layman's interest in the nature of humanity is all that's needed to hold one's attention. Yet even the talent of these Time editors isn't enough to make up for the lack of information available about Gorbachev the man. What corporations wanted-subsidies, industrial policy, protection from competition, governmentally sanctioned monopoly-most Americans hated" In fact, Weaver implies that Ford may have had an ulterior motive behind the Pinto recall of 1978. Bettyann Kevles, a science writer for the Los Angeles Times, has chronicled the recent plethora of experiments and observations in a comprehensive, encyclopedic book about female behavior in many species (not including the human. A scathing epic of Soviet life at the time of the battle of Stalingrad, it has received fervid advance praise.
Prescribers would have to explain why we are not to speak Chaucerian English. We do not find the cat in the hat or the wocket in the pocket, but Dr. The author writes with conviction and authority, reinforced with hundreds of references and citations. What these three essays make clear is how central to the Aztec culture this practice was and how the slaughter grew with the power of the empire I confess that even as a boy reading William H. If a poem lacks flair, he runs it through his computer "randomizer" which rearranges the lines to give it a properly skewed, fractured, "post-modern" feel.