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...firmly committed to America's traditional values but impatient with yesterday's politics." It notes that he attended Yale Divinity school and graduated from Yale Law School, ignoring his B.A from Bethany College. In the acknowledgements, Hart cites several prominent academicians, including former Yale President Dr. Kingman Brewster, former Carter inflation fighter Alfred J. Kahn. MIT's Robert Solow, and Kennedy School hotshots Robert Reich and Daniel Yergin Throughout the text, the senator shows a wide ranging familiarity with Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, citing among others Winston Churchill, Leo Iolstoy, Jose Ortegay Gasset, Theodore Roszak, H.G. Wells and Cicero...
NAYLOR'S TIGHTLY PACKED visual imagery soars to the level of high art more often than it falls short; her ability to evoke reality in all of its unpleasant truthfulness falters only when it slips into sentimentality. "Hard-edged, soft-centered, brutally demanding, and easily pleased, these women of Brewster Place, hands on hips, straight-backed, round-bellied, high-behinded women" have no interest or time to be maudlin. In this first novel, Naylor also demonstrates a rare mastery of the Black idiom and a delicate sense of balance in her usage. Chronology, the anathema of many a more seasoned...
...Late of Brewster Place, formerly of the South, the North, and nowhere in particular, the seven women that travel through these stories are not always vibrant, nor are their lives necessarily riveting. None of them is intended primarily as a tragic figure, despite personal hardships, and Naylor occasionally errs too far towards the nonchalant in making that point clear: "She had almost learned to cope with his peculiar ways. A pot of burnt rice meant a fractured jaw or a wet bathroom floor a loose tooth." Each woman's story opens not with birth, or adolescence, or marriage, but with...
...GWEN KNAPP Harvard, Cornell, Dartmouth, Columbia, 30-18 Associate Sports Editor 42-0 21-10 34-31 45-36 2-2 .625 PAUL ENGELMAYER Harvard, Cornell, Dartmouth, Brown, Editorial Chairman 56-0 17-10 28-14 10-3 5-0 Lifetime Record KINGMAN BREWSTER Yale, Tie, Dartmouth, Brown, Former Yale President 29-28 21-21 3-0 21-0 Guest Selector
...Uncle Brewster has his green light. Although flight number nine will have a special importance and relevance to family and friends, the journey certainly will not infuse tremendous nationwide pride like missions in the past. More troubling, though, is the increasing importance of space travel for corporate heads and defense strategists. If space shuttle flights go increasingly unnoticed, they may backfire...