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LEWIS'S STYLE is formal and elegant; given a choice, he would rather be stiff than colloquial. Ironically enough, considering his awareness of the special problems Wharton faced as a woman writer, he sometimes allows his language to partake of sexual stereotyping. Describing two characters in her novel The Custom of the Country, for example, he writes: Marvell also, as it were, embodies Edith's feminine side; Moffatt her masculine side, her immense energy, her decisiveness in action, the vigor of her ironic humor. Later, he again refers to what he terms Wharton's "masculine vein of satiric humor...
...after day, ambitious new programs-or reupholstered old ones -have been announced. They include plans to set up a chain of rural banks, assure equal pay for women and end the antiquated custom of the dowry, which has become an intolerable burden for many families with daughters. There is now even a twelve-point program that may lead to nationwide prohibition-at some cost to the state governments, which gain an estimated $500 million a year in liquor taxes...
...with The Wilby Conspiracy, which features a proper white engineer (Michael Caine) and a black revolutionary (Poitier) dashing about South Africa with a cache of hot diamonds. Director Ralph Nelson (Lilies of the Field) and his writ ers evoke mocking memories of The Defiant Ones by giving Poitier his custom ary handcuffs and a weak bladder to go along with them. This combination of circumstances results in a certain amount of anguish, requiring the reluctant assistance of his unfettered friend (the exemplary Caine...
When the U.S. Supreme Court wound up its annual session last spring, it held over eleven cases-an unusually large number-for reconsideration this fall. Next week the Justices will return to start the work of the fall term. Despite their custom of taking up old business first, they plan to hear oral arguments on only two of the eleven cases in October. Reason: votes on the other nine cases promise to be extremely close, and the health of Associate Justice William Douglas, who suffered a stroke last New Year's Eve, is still an open question. Says...
...Sure," Cleaver laughed. "I can make any design, any dimensions. Custom-tailored...