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...school, the milk and cookies, a rustling of Mother in full stiff skirts. Americans almost never cite books as aide-memoire or illustrations of family values, perhaps because the TV sitcoms of American childhoods tended toward the sunny, whereas the novelists (think of John O'Hara, Philip Roth, John Cheever), if read at all, made their money by prying open American private lives and showing dirty secrets...
...hard to overlook. Bisexual characters are the newest twist in movies and TV shows, most notably Basic Instinct and L.A. Law. PBS recently broadcast a drama based on the lives of writers Vita Sackville-West and her husband Harold Nicolson, both bisexuals. Authors Camille Paglia and the late John Cheever have confessed their sexual duality; recent biographies claim that Laurence Olivier, Cary Grant and Eleanor Roosevelt had affairs with both men and women...
Pamela Keel was elected from North House and Kelly Chandler and Abigail Cheever were elected from Quincy House...
...vertigo in his ordered world; a wife holds her husband up to public ridicule, only to have things turn around as soon as they are alone in the bedroom. Once people like these were the focus of Henry James and Edith Wharton; in recent years Louis Auchincloss and John Cheever have been their chroniclers. Robinson shows a similar mastery of subject and form, and she belongs in that august company...
Speculation has centered on several names, including incoming President and CEO of the Massachusetts Higher Education Finance Group Daniel S. Cheever Jr. '64, Stanford School of Education Dean Marshall S. Smith '59, former Ed School Associate Dean Jerome T. Murphy, former Berkeley School of Education Dean Bernard R. Gifford and Professor of Education and Urban Studies Charles V. Willie, sources...