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...surprised to see myself quoted so extensively in Judith E. Dutton's article, "Buell Letter Warns of Grade Inflation," printed on January...
...Dutton never interviewed me, nor did I ever say any of the things attributed...
Mitigating Circumstances (Dutton; $20), by Nancy Taylor Rosenberg, needs some mitigating by an editor. Or maybe not; the prose is so purple it's golden. An aerobic love passage ends with the heroine, an assistant prosecutor named Lily Forrester, hyperventilating as follows: "Her body was screaming at her, begging her, demanding more. Perhaps she could actually feed this desire, this need." A lawyer's body wouldn't really carry on this way, would...
...FORTUNE-TELLERS by Lloyd Alexander, illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman (Dutton; $15). In Cameroon a young carpenter consults the town fortune- teller. "You're going to pay me a nice fee," the seer predicts. What he doesn't foresee is that the laborer will end up as the town fortune-teller. This ingenious adventure suggests the magic of the Arabian Nights...
PUBLISHER: DUTTON; 304 PAGES...