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...most part, low-wage positions earning $250 a week or less. More than 25% of the U.S. work force now toils in this class of job, up from less than 19% in 1979. Laid-off workers who return to the market often must take huge pay cuts. Carolyn Collins, 49, of Ames, Iowa, who lost a $10-an-hour job running quality-control studies for a plastics maker, found new work as a clerk-typist, at $6.85 an hour. "If this is happening not just to me but to thousands of other people," says Collins...
...newest addition to both institutions came over the summer, when Carolyn Higbie, assistant professor of classics, stepped onto the brand new carpet outside her third-floor office for the first time...
Brown, the respected author of Civil Wars and Tender Mercies, is a skilled and subtle observer. She pays careful, measured attention to the reactions of Carolyn, Jacob's mother, a pediatrician who believes that truth is too important for compromise; Ben, a talented sculptor who lies combatively for his son; and Judith, a bright, somewhat withdrawn girl who even before the crime was troubled by her brother's unruly sexuality. But too much care, too much measuring, give the novel a somewhat mechanical quality that prevents it from being first rate. Parents and sister are complex and believable, but seem...
Jacob, unlike his parents and sister, rarely appears as more than a sketched figure. He seems not to have a life, but merely a function: to set off the family torment, so the author can take notes. Carolyn dutifully worries now and then about how the parents of the dead girl are feeling, but mostly the troubled family's misery is airless. The legal and psychological entanglement seems oddly phantasmagorical, lacking independent reality. As an expression of parental dread, of being trapped and unable to help one's children in a situation of vaguely defined horror, the fears are vivid...
...Carolyn M. Dever, a fifth-year English graduate student, says English students are not required to teach, but many continue to do so out of necessity. Funding for most graduate students, she says, ends after the second year...