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Though Rule is no great stylist--her good intentions and horror at the story cause severe purpling of the writing at crucial times--her book is at least a sensitive, steady account of the facts, given a moving dimension through her relationship with the murderer. Though Rule, like Larson, is...
Colleagues dismissed Moynihan's blast as "overspeak," as one put it, but many Democratic leaders are admitting that their party needs intellectual refurbishing. In coming months, some of them will surely be competing with Moynihan for a voice in that undertaking. California's independent-minded Governor Jerry Brown...
He takes pride in advisory posts he holds at the Stanford Research Institute and Rockefeller University. Three of his four children have U.S. degrees and his third wife, Mary Padikis Olayan, once a secretary for Aramco, is American. Now that his only son, Khaled, 32, is running the Saudi companies...
Another difficulty with the roles springs, one suspects, from casting very closely to the grain of the real students behing the characters. At times, the people on stage seem to have stopped acting. They become participants in their characters' problems and activities; the production beams in and out sporadically, its...
At Cornell, wrote Biographer Andrew Field, "Nabokov belonged to the department of Nabokov." Just as well, considering the cheerful contempt for critical orthodoxies that resounds through these lectures. The whole historical and sociological dimension of Dickens' Bleak House, he announces, "is neither interesting nor important." He dismisses Freudian interpretations...