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Huang Hunian, 56, is a reasonably typical office worker. His three children, who are in their 20s, all have jobs, and the extra incomes have enabled the Huangs to buy a 14-in. black-and-white TV set, a radio-cassette player and a few other luxury goods. But all five family members have to live in one room. Their 150 sq. ft. of floor space does not provide enough for five beds; they solved that problem by raising the ceiling enough to create a small loft. Together with two other families, who also live in one room each, they...
...simple and straightforward, though its workings are intricate enough, the author sketches the histories of four people in Bellington, a town she places in West Virginia. They are Mitch Hampson, born in 1910, a soldier, heavy-equipment operator, scrambling business man; his wife Jean, born in the mid-'20s, deeper and more complex than Mitch; and their daughter Danner and son Billy, born in 1949 and 1950. Nothing extraordinary happens to any of them. Jean and Mitch hold their not very companionable marriage together until the children are grown, then get divorced. Danner be comes a pretty, tense, scholarly...
Thompson was at Harvard from 1948 to 1965, and he assumed the Rosen chair in 1952. From the '20s to the late '40s, he taught at Wellesley, the University of California and Princeton...
...Most of the suspects belong to Gush Emunim, the nationalistic religious group that has spearheaded the Jewish settlement movement in the occupied West Bank. Some are reserve paratroopers and tank commanders in the armed forces. One is a rabbi. The sight of these men, a few in their early 20s and most of them bearded and wearing skullcaps, being led into court has profoundly unsettled the country...
...Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, but the memoir form in this case offers far more than familiar material rechewed. This is his second book of reminiscence. The first, 20th Century Journey, published in 1976, had as its center a misty evocation of Paris in the '20s and was in some ways a familiar story worn by the telling...