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...person the epistolary intimacies he handled so well. It was in this last area that Kafka felt most inadequate, most overshadowed by his father; although he believed that the greatest human duty was to have a family, he could never allow himself to intrude on his father's domain. Also frightened by any possible interruption of his writing, he never wanted to marry badly enough to go through with it--until his last love, by which times he knew he was dying. And then, appropriately, her parents refused to consent...
...restore New York City and State to financial health. But his personal behavior was sometimes erratic. When a dentist started building a house that would block the view from Carey's summer home on Shelter Island, the Governor wanted the neighboring property seized under the right of eminent domain. Engie Gouletas had foibles too. She incorrectly said that her first ex-husband was dead and claimed that there were only two exes, not three. On top of all that, American Invsco, a large real estate company owned by Engie and her brothers, tumbled into financial disarray...
...wrong to criticize Luciano Pavarotti [Nov. 30] for his commercialism and hype. He has taken opera out of the tiny domain of the musical elite and given it to the world. Thanks to Pavarotti, some south Georgia teen-agers now concede that opera is "not too bad." What more noble achievement is there...
Secretary of Education Terrel Bell, 60, also faces the thankless task of presiding over the disappearance of his own domain. A Utah educator who once was a strong supporter of a separate Education Department, Bell has won White House approval for his dismantling zeal. Says a presidential aide: "He has not been captured by the bureaucracy. He's made a positive impression by being the first Cabinet member to perform institutional hara-kiri...
Another stubbornly ubiquitous villain, or maybe scapegoat--for whatever it reveals about Domini's private paranoias--is the executive woman. Sometimes her domain is T.V. production, but she masquerades too as a plant-store employee named Priss, striding into a narrator's office "all body," and telling him. "People like you marry people like me;" as the intense 17-year-old wife of the teenage narrator; even in one post-mortem fantasy, as a formless floating femine "blob" of a soul whose outer layer develops iron patches when her philosophizing outstrips the narrator's comprehension...