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...children have always bloodily expired, Powers writes in his mood of apocalyptic gloom. His hero, tormented by daymares and night sweats, broods by the dozens of pages over the medieval horror of the Children's Crusade, relishes at chapter-length the cold irony of the Pied Piper legend, written out with speaking parts for everyone except the rats. Writhing as he pares away wrecked body parts, Kraft imagines, for the duration of a novella, cynical child abuse during the evacuation of London's children at the time of the blitz (rural lechers taking the pretty preteens into their homes, ignoring...
There are some notable missing people. If a chapter on Friedan, why not a mention of Simone De Beauvoir, whose The Second Sex, published in 1953, gave U.S. feminists a modern ideology? Klaus Fuchs, the British atomic spy, makes a number of appearances, but Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, executed for espionage in 1953, are strangely absent...
...agreement was a new chapter in Harvard building and union relations, one which both sides seem to welcome. "First and foremost, Harvard wants to get the highest quality of workmanship at the lowest price," says David A. Zewinski, senior vice president for property operations and construction. "It has worked fine...
...appears now, the U.S. acquiesces in the takeover of Bosnia, it will go down as a sordid chapter in American foreign policy at a time when the prospects for a real "new world order" seemed so bright...
This academic year's chapter in the ongoing epic opened on October 6 with the long-awaited release of the ROTC Committee report, which was intended to resolve the thorny question of Harvard's involvement--against an anti-discrimination policy arrested in 1985--with a program which does not admit gays...