Even so, abortion has become the method of choice in dealing with troubled pregnancies. Contest entries must be received or postmarked no later than Aug 1, 1986, and the winner will be announced by Sept 30, 1986 Contest rules may be obtained by writing PWA/St Martin's Press Contest, at either P. O Box 1930, Longwood, Fla 32750 or P. O Box 1349, Sonoma, Calif 95476 Manuscripts must be sent to the same addresses. There is no chronology to speak of, and the tales shift back and forth through time changing direction, emphasis and narrative focus. social scientists thought America would brightly glow in the future as a beacon for all world nations, Bellah was arguing that the Japanese were more than superb imitators. Yet one of the better stories deals exactly with this loss-but does so with a poignant sensibility and a lucid voice. With that fearsome system of oppression, he built the Soviet Union's industrial base, drove Hitler's armies from Russian soil, and crushed all dissent despite the fact that, by the time of his death in 1953, nearly half a century of Communist rule had yet to provide most Russians with a standard of living that could be judged more than marginal by Western standards. Defended by an omnipotent secret police, Stalin's totalitarian system seemed invulnerable.
In his well-received "Going After Cacciato" Tim O'Brien gave us a look at the horror and nervous black humor triggered by the Vietnam War. Robin Right would come bob, bob, bobbing along" In "The Property of Colette Nervi" a crippled country girl acquires the jewelry left behind by a visiting French couple; and with it, some of their romantic glamour. Upon their successful arrival at Nome in August of 1937, the two found fame to be an ephemeral thing. That he would also deny other women, if he could, the right to an abortion seems to me to undercut the freedom he does offer. 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. But his targets were almost always foot-soldiers; most of the casualties in "The Dunciad" for example, were minor figures at the time. While Mack's understanding of these bygone power struggles is impressive, his insistence on making Pope a hero for our times is overstated.
But "The White House Mess" seems to have been written on the outside by a golly-gee innocent with big eyes; it's very cartoony, this book. Cervantes' immortal character stands for the innumerable men of his day to whom it was not obvious at all. In this new edition the blue of mountain, the splay of foaming water, and Rose's content as the beacon light envelops her firmly establish that today's children must of necessity respond quite differently in a world where fear resides not in nature but in forces outside its province. It is fascinating to speculate how Gertrude Stein might react to this newest edition of "The World Is Round" bound (literally and figuratively) to attract Stein devotees and the child-listeners for whom the story was written. Already, Gore Vidal, a writer not given to gush, has dubbed the book "the great California novel" Another tough-minded critic, D J. The collection darkens as you read, covering 48 years of fictional thinking about "megawar" Two Ray Bradbury classics offer somewhat nostalgic views of man's artifacts, and the book ends on a note of unrelieved metaphorical gloom, "My Life in the Jungle" by Jim Aikin. As photocopies of the damning articles circulated among scholars and critics, initial shock and dismay soon gave way to a heated debate over the merits of the theories that de Man espoused-and the question of whether, and to what extent, a writer's deeds may be said to discredit his ideas.
Across his pages strode the controversial and charismatic figure of Henry Robinson Luce, the intense and beetle-browed co-founder of the enterprise, who was its single and singular proprietor from the early death of his founding partner Briton Hadden in 1929 until his own death in 1967. The plot turns explicitly on the issue of language and identity in a novel way. Now, five years after a microfilm copy of the novel was mysteriously made, smuggled out, and published in French, an English version has appeared in a translation by Robert Chandler. On April 25, 1936, at 9 o'clock in the morning, they put in at the foot of 42nd Street in a badly designed canoe they named The Muriel.
Such as this reminisce of Lord Chalfont: "Montgomery's allegedly austere personal habits gave rise to a number of disobliging comments and anecdotes. The work is just too rich ever to stop reading and start reviewing. As a friend who read the Israeli edition of the book remarked, "It told me things I would rather not have known" But what happened nearly four decades ago left a deep imprint on Israeli society and national attitudes. Parfit is intelligent and informed, which means that he has a reasonable understanding of the abstruse activities of Antarctica's researchers, so the reader does too. He is also tempted by preciousness from time to time-oddly strained lines, such as, "I am faithful as the ant with his small waist" can mar the distillation that he's achieved in the whole of the book. One of Garthoff's important themes is that arms control has not failed political leaders in this country, political leaders have failed arms control.
Of course, Mexican men and women keep coming to work because they know that otherwise law-abiding American citizens will employ them for lower wages than Americans would accept Hence the dilemma that Lester D Langley has to cope with. ARE THE '60s HISTORY, ALREADY? Apparently so, as Doubleday prepares to publish an oral history commemorating the 20th anniversary of the Woodstock Musical Festival. GODDESS: THE SECRET LIVES OF MARILYN MONROE by Anthony Summers (Macmillan: $18. 95, illustrated Like a restless spirit, Marilyn Monroe keeps returning. Lowry weaves in her moral lessons so artfully that there is little chance for meanness to get out of hand Mr. Prescott's "Conquest of Mexico and Peru" I found it hard to swallow the Spanish accounts of Aztec human sacrifice.
"Agee: A Life Remembered" does not aim to replace Laurence Bergreen's full-dress biography "James Agee, a Life" (Dutton, 1984. (A)s to eating and drinking there is in this book only one real don't ; that is sugar" Pauling explains. The kind of system where Jack Warner could write to director Vincent Sherman: "Get in there and finish the picture by next Saturday or before and stop trying for perfection. He looks like Everyman (at 70) in his plain suit and polka-dot bow tie, with bald head, tufts of white hair over his ears, and white mustache Mr Milquetoast. He precedes his "History and Interpretation" of the structure with a poem in which "the window of time" appears to him He sees ancient faces that stare back with eyes of obsidian. The translation by Margaret Sayers Peden can hardly be questioned. He does not play with varied psychoanalytic schools and modifications of clinical theory.
And not far behind: Larry Speakes' "Speaking Out: The Reagan Presidency from Inside the White House" (Scribner's Neither is expected to be gentle with the boss SECORD SUES. Yet Mansfield, a British journalist, takes readers well beyond stereotypes formed from oil embargoes and airline hijackings. The de Man scandal has also made people wonder again about the attractions fascism evidently held for upper-class European intellectuals in the 1930s (see Page 6, that "low, dishonest decade" in W H Auden's phrase. Rachel hasn't read Freud (Freud would have wanted to read her, but Brookner allows her to remark that "unhomely" in the "psychiatric textbook" she has glanced at, seems an inadequate translation for "the effect of alienation" in unheimlich. Chrissie's candidate, a noble black woman, is running a feisty campaign against a slickster backed by various real-estate interests that would like to develop the neighborhood, evicting its ragtag community of immigrants, gays, and senior citizens in the process.
While "The Divorce Revolution" effectively addresses the conventionally married and divorced population, future texts may dwell on the economic consequences for those who live outside the formal and conventional system. Despite these all too common distractions, science does march on. One generation after another of his forebears struggled to pass the imperial examination system, the highly sophisticated and burdensome series of written tests that provided entry to official rank, only to fall victim to palace intrigue. Warner Brothers studio filled a special niche during Hollywood's golden years. The author's grandmother kept a diary during the Anglo-Boer war when the British were at the Afrikaners' jugular; his great-aunt corresponded lastingly with Robert Sobukwe when the leader of the Pan African Congress was imprisoned on Robben Island. The India Office, where he worked for a year or more, did not then place onerous demands on junior clerks: Work started at 11, ended at 5, with an hour for lunch, and at least two months holiday a year. (Strangely, he misinterprets something I wrote on precisely this point: "Jack's courtesy to any individual was always in inverse ratio to his affection" Gallagher takes this to mean that I considered Ford cruel and unkind.