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...Women, like our Negroes in our western plantations, are born slaves, and live prisoners all their lives," declared the anonymous author of An Essay in Defense of the Female Sex. Lady Antonia Fraser confirms this low appraisal of the state of many 17th century Englishwomen. But not all. Her indefatigable and lively research shows that a number of spirited females refused to get along and go along with a loveless marriage, contracted with an eye on a dowry and followed by a dozen children...
...real estate sales, the funds to be used to buy back the beaches for the public. But most states are not obliged to pay for what is viewed as a longstanding public right. That may be true even in Maine, which is still governed to some extent by a 17th century grant from the King of England that gave away huge tracts of coastal land, including the beaches, to encourage settlement...
...serve as a mirror, allowing each interpreter to see his own concerns reflected. By that standard, Rumanian Director Lucian Pintilie's vision of Tartuffe-a portrait of an absurdist, spy-flecked totalitarian state-is not only legitimate but a tribute to the hardihood of Moliere's 17th century satire of conformity and misplaced religious fervor. Pintilie's production at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis will not please purists: it is manic rather than mannered, it looks abstract and austere rather than luxuriously "in period," and it ingeniously takes liberties with the plot without altering the text...
Muriel Spark's 17th novel is informed with that perception. Her central character is a pained, Job-like figure regarded in a comic light, as if, between losses, he is playing God's fool. It is a difficult role. Harvey Gotham is a wealthy scholar-dilettante who retires to rural France in his mid-30s. There he occupies himself with a monograph on the riddle of universal suffering: If the Lord is beneficent, why does his earth contain so much misery? On the bestseller list that conundrum is called When Bad Things Happen to Good People. Here...
...leader of Canada's ruling Liberal Party, Toronto Lawyer John Turner, 55, became the nation's 17th Prime Minister last week, succeeding the retiring Pierre Trudeau, 64. Early Saturday morning, Trudeau drove from his official residence in Ottawa to Government House, where he offered his resignation. Scarcely half an hour later, Turner and his new 28-member Cabinet arrived to be sworn into office by Governor General Jeanne Sauve...