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Moreover, if a Jordanian-Palestinian confederation really came about, Israel might regard it as far safer than a completely independent Palestinian state. In the shorter run, a confederation might also satisfy Israel's publicly stated conditions for dealing with the P.L.O. In Jerusalem, on the day before he went...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: After the Vance Mission: Signs of Hope | 2/28/1977 | See Source »

Auchincloss's legal life touches his literary work in other ways, too. Like the legal agreements he draws up during the day, his prose is dry, polished, exact. Moreover, his characters are often two-dimensional, acting unspontaneously, as if according to some imagined contract. No novel better illustrates Auchincloss's...

Author: By Rick Doyle, | Title: Arbiter of Elegance | 5/12/1976 | See Source »

The title alone is enough to tip off the Auchincloss devotee that a system of quid pro quo operates in this book just as much as in the author's sixteen earlier works. But in The Winthrop Covenant the contractual terms are explicit. Examining the lives of selected Winthrops through...

Author: By Rick Doyle, | Title: Arbiter of Elegance | 5/12/1976 | See Source »

In return for these wordly advantages, the Puritan ethic dictates the covenant's quid: a sense of mission, "presumably divinely inspired," engendered in each Winthrop as expiation or compensation for his headstart in life. That mission takes many forms. To Governor John Winthrop (1630), the mission entails hounding a religious...

Author: By Rick Doyle, | Title: Arbiter of Elegance | 5/12/1976 | See Source »

Echoes. The best of the Pocket Mime Theater, performed at the Church of the Covenant, 67 Newberry St. in Boston. Sat. at 9:30 p.m., Sun at 3 p.m. Tickets $4.00 on Saturdays, $3.00 on Sundays.

Author: By Gay Seidman, | Title: Stage | 5/6/1976 | See Source »

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