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...other short pieces in this convenient collection betray an apprentice, if decidedly precocious writer. But Love and Freindship is a miracle of maturity, and one of the wittiest send-ups of nonsense in the English language. -By Paul Gray
...There he steadfastly worked his way up: acting head of Section F, which dealt with Soviet and other Communist operations in Britain and the colonies, then deputy director and, finally, D.G. in 1956. throughout, his loyalty seemed beyond question. "I find the whole idea that he would betray his country just incredible," said Hollis' daughter-in-law Margaret. "He was so English. He was a keen cricket watcher and golfer. He always drove British cars, and he had his suits made in London...
...book's central characters--a British war correspondent and a Confederate nurse--spy for the Union. Each believes that the South will fail and that the war is a pointless tragedy. Though they betray information on the size and location of Confederate forces, the Union army in Virginia fails to respond in time. The fighting plods on; the war captures the nation...
...final candidates for his serious consideration. It would be harder for Bok to make a decision against the students' and faculty's wishes, in the face of this public student position. An open process would make the president more accountable to students and faulty and less likely to betray them, because their views would be publicly know...
...owned. Robinson, 37, who lives with her husband and two sons in Massachusetts, grew up in Sandpoint, Idaho, before majoring in English at Brown and earning a Ph.D. at the University of Washington. Though she says that Housekeeping is "totally not autobiographical," the novel's vivid landscapes betray the presence of an author who lived among them, just as the prose points to someone who studies and loves language. She is now working slowly on a second novel, writing paragraphs here and there when the spirit moves her. "It will come when it comes," she says. That...