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Share household expenses. Pay parents rent, or help with bills, and take over chores like mowing the lawn. "This way, everyone is helping in some way, and no one feels taken advantage of," says Elizabeth Carll, a psychologist in Huntington, N.Y., who is an expert on dealing with stress. Bliss does all the cooking and cleaning. Michael Gallagher buys his own food, and beyond that, his mother says, he has "paid in trade" by persuading her to have the hip replacement she had needed for a while and by taking care of her postsurgery...
...seem more effective in carrying them out. Churches get things done because they generate, in the think tank-speak of the day, social capital. They possess the moral authority to call people to service on behalf of others, something politicians generally lack the stature even to try. Americans, Everett Carll Ladd of the Roper Center writes in the Ladd Report, are more than twice as likely to volunteer as people in Germany or France. And the percentage of Americans volunteering, unlike participating in government, is going not down but up; it more than doubled between 1977 and 1995, from...
...serene elections early polls often prove ephemeral, because voters' preferences are, in pollsterspeak, "lightly held." In 1988 Michael Dukakis' 17-point lead over George Bush disappeared in a twinkle. This year the public's extraordinarily sour mood makes horse-race numbers still more suspect. "In this atmosphere," says Everett Carll Ladd, director of the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research, "polls often become a source of misinformation rather than insight into what's happening...
Late in the book a parallel is developed between Carll and Jessie's father, an oldtime Communist who once left his family for two years on party orders and who now spends his time grumbling about his wife's bourgeois taste in furniture. The coincidence of husband and father immobilized by idealism gone stale is interesting. But in the end it hurts a novel in which there is no adult male with substance enough to cast a shadow. This is true even for minor characters; an interracial couple friendly to Jessie and Carll consists of a black wife...
Well, why not? There is a lot of male invisibility going around these days. How should an out-of-date hero spend his time? Must idealism always be corrosive, as well as ennobling? Jessie does not know, but she is busy with the children. Can Carll see any glimmers of hope or despair? The reader never finds out much about this man, because Brown does not take the trouble to give him a fully drawn character. As things are, what we are given by this gifted author, who wrote the much praised 1978 novel Tender Mercies, is chiefly a very...