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...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 it is entitled The Only Problem...
...Ronstadt's fondness for retro chic is getting to be longstanding. In 1980 she reached back to Gilbert & Sullivan when she did The Pirates of Penzance, first on stage, later in a movie version. Then in 1983 she made What's New, a hit album of '30s and '40s classics. After the current eight-week tour, Ronstadt and Riddle will begin recording a second collection of old standards. And this fall Ronstadt will return to the Public Theater in New York City to sing Mimi in an English version of Puccini's La Boheme. What...
During his first stint for Time Inc., as a writer for FORTUNE, Agee was assigned a story that let him weld his overheated rhetoric to a social theme: the lives of '30s sharecroppers in the South, with photographs by Walker Evans. Agee later appraised his own work as "a sinful book at least in all degrees of 'falling short of the mark.' " The critical and popular response reflected his view: published as a book in 1941, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men had sold only 600 copies by the end of the year. But Agee...
Shirer was close enough to Hitler to feel the Nazi leader's messianic personal force. Even in the early '30s, his memoir makes clear, he was not tempted to underrate the Führer. But the collection of crackbrains and third-raters with which Hitler surrounded himself was absurd enough, by Shirer's account, to suggest a reason for the long years before the Nazis were taken seriously in England...
...Tomb, as the euphoric scientists subsequently named the 1,500-year-old find, is the first unspoiled Mayan burial chamber to be unearthed in two decades.*The discovery contained 15 clay pots, well-preserved wall paintings and a skeleton of a male believed to be in his 30s. Researchers, who announced the find last week, expect the contents to shed fresh light on a shadowy period of the mysterious Mexican and Central American civilization that flourished in the jungle from about...