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...family, though the world according to Gordon was quite different from Irving's literary Astrodome. Readers of Final Payments found themselves in a small house in a working-class neighborhood of Queens, Archie Bunker country without one-liners. The heroine, Isabel Moore, had spent all of her 20s caring for her invalid father, a man impacted with hatred for liberalism and the non-Catholic world...
Whitehead identified the suspects as Henry McLendon, Aldin Carter and Arnold Evans, all Boston residents in their early 20s. All three face charges of murder, two counts of armed assault with intent to rob, and assault with a dangerous weapon...
DIED. Samuel Barber, 70, American composer whose lyrical music won him international popularity; of cancer; in New York City. Celebrated in his 20s for works like the Overture for the School for Scandal, he later won Pulitzer prizes for his opera Vanessa and for Piano Concerto No. 1. His grand effort, Antony and Cleopatra, was a rare failure for a composer who loved and understood the human voice and stood apart from avant-garde trends...
Blacks found a haven in Harlem about the turn of the century and soon made it their own, displacing the other ethnic groups that had been there before them. By the early '20s, it was a lively center for writers, singers, dancers and composers: Langston Hughes, Ethel Waters, Josephine Baker, Eubie Blake and Paul Robeson. Bessie Smith occasionally dropped in, and there was enough talent, much of it unknown to the folks downtown, to fill the stages of a dozen theaters. The expansive, tree-lined streets were safe, and on a Sunday, Seventh Avenue was a promenade for strollers...
Ways of Escape takes Greene from his mid-20s to the present, while making him seem just as inept and hapless as ever. This is not easy, given his spectacular career. So he dwells whenever possible on failure. He finds in two of his early novels "a badness beyond the power of criticism properly to evoke." He studies himself as a beginning writer and concludes: "I am not sure that I detect much promise in his work." He characterizes his low-echelon work with the British Secret Service during World War II as "futile." Occasionally, he has to confront...