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...first-hand experience (an argument she used several years ago in explaining what she viewed as the limitations of women's literature). The reading of the fiction under Hardwick's discussion becomes a shuffling of "great colorful playingcards," because from Richardson to Hawthorne to George Eliot's Adam Bede, women are neither fully tragic heroines nor psychologically complete people. They are just so many characters composed of arbitrary qualities that work for the author's conception of plot...
...September Sam either had quit managing the Sea Anchor or had been fired, it was never quite clear to Merilee which. He devoted himself full time to his sculpturing in the garage. Tools and blowtorches were expensive and had taken all Sam's savings. Merilee worked at the Bede Game on her propitious days...
Divorced. By Michael Langhorne Astor, 52, son of the late second Viscount Astor, and former Conservative member of Parliament: Patricia Astor, 38, daughter of Sir Bede Clifford, onetime (1942-46) governor of Trinidad and Tobago; on uncontested charges of adultery; after six years of marriage, no children; in London...
Past Is Present. What is anyone to make of all this? It is way out, and redeemed from boredom, if not confusion, by Sinclair's great verbal felicity. He can, in the manner of James Joyce in his celebrated parody of all English prose since the Venerable Bede, catch the tone of class and time. One hilarious example is a meeting between Lady Chatterley and a real, rather than Law-rentian, gamekeeper who can't abide them words she 'ad picked oop from that Mellors, the previous incumbent. "Look at 'er," the keeper says bitterly, "Lady...
Better Investment. Among its alumni St. Bede's totals some 1,000 priests, including one cardinal, several bishops and archbishops. Many of its students raised children before becoming priests; each class usually has three or four widowers...