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...century. These were people who felt themselves and the future of their children threatened. In Britain members of the upper middle class feared they would be swamped and taxed to extinction by the profligate overbreeding of the lower orders. In the U.S., members of the Wasp ascendancy looked with dismay at the flood of immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe. Italians! Poles! What was the country coming...
...America's leading value peddler, William Bennett, summarized the apparent new culture consensus to the New York Times recently.) Social conservatives used to be smug populists who tarred their critics as out-of-touch elitists. Now they shoot furious thunderbolts at the formerly all-wise American people. Although the dismay of the sanctimony set is enjoyable to watch, their despair may be somewhat misplaced...
...humorist and playwright, O'Donnell has mastered the art of conveying the bittersweet. In his first novel, Getting Over Homer, O'Donnell wryly traced a twin's failing quest to find a bond similar to the one he shared with his sibling. In his second novel, Let Nothing You Dismay (Knopf; 193 pages; $22), O'Donnell is once again obsessed with a young man's search for wholeness, and here too the author's witticisms flow felicitously...
Mark O'Donnell's new novel, Let Nothing You Dismay, recounts a day in the life of Tad Leary, a 34-year-old New Yorker poised to do battle with a day of Christmas parties that force him to con-front every group of significant people in his life. On Christmas Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve (Tad and his brother's childhood way of marking the days till Christmas), Tad has just been fired from his job at an elementary school and is about to be booted out of his apartment. He navigates his way through family, a friend...
...harmlessly enough. "Rugrats" fans of all ages will be thrilled by the entrance of a new cast member: Dylan Pickles, who is promptly and unfortunately nicknamed "Dil" by his very own parents. He turns out to be just as sour as his namesake, much to older brother Tommy's dismay. To allay Tommy's miseries, his father Stu takes him to the basement and bestows "responsibility" upon him in the form of an heirloom pocket watch; as a big brother, Stu tells Tommy, he now has a responsibility to take care of Dil. Tommy is awed by the watch...