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...eventually to have a broad impact on other private na tional groups that exclude women, but it is not yet clear which organizations might be affected. The status of such groups as the Boy Scouts and Kiwanis will have to await case-by-case tests. But the Minnesota Jaycees chapters did not have to delay celebrating. Kathy Ebert, former vice president of the Minneapolis chapter, had suffered through the 5½ yearlong legal process as one of the original plaintiffs and happily called a press conference to savor the victory. As for Anne Nelson, a St. Paul banker and onetime...
...goes this plain tale. The fascination is in the telling. Jean, Mitch and their children present their first-person stories alternately, and the hastening tumble of years can be read in the chapter headings: "War Letters: Mitch, 1942-45," "Anniversary Song: Jean, 1948," "War Letters: Billy, 1970." "All those winters the family stayed put, just ate food they'd dried or put up in pantries, and venison the old man shot. They kept one path shoveled through the snow to the barn, and the walls of the path were as high as a man's shoulders. I know...
Halfway through the first chapter of this new novel by the talented poet and novelist Marge Piercy, one wonders what use there is in continuing. Fly Away Home, we can tell from the blurb, will be the intense and anguished story of the breakup of a marriage, and the subsequent discovery by a warm but timid woman that there is a whole world open to her. It is a familiar story; even under Piercy's talented pen--she is known for Woman on the Edge of Time and Braided Lives--what on earth could make it fresh...
...material of magic and witcheraft in his latest novel. The Witches of Eastwick. Updike is a terrific writer, this book should because for excitement. But he is also innocent of magic; in the way that one's marden great aunt is probably innocent of sex: one dreads his first chapter as one avoids bringing up procreation with auntie...
Greer winds up her arguments--in a chapter tellingly titled "The Myth of Overpopulation"--with some pretty potent conclusions. We in the West, she charges, assume that there is overpopulation in the world because most people cannot achieve our standard of living. The Malthusian argument that population will eventually outstrip resources is valid, but Greer claims that this has not yet occurred. With an uncharacteristic humbleness. She writes...