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Gordon offered a literary perspective, discussing the commodification of women through the marriage contract in Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth and Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice...
...Tammany Hall and, if he was too lazy to go to the bathroom, he'd take a whizz out the dining room window. Lorenz had Papa's appetite for excess and Mama's love of lore. He had his mother's height too: a shade under five feet. Edith Meiser, who would star in Rodgers and Hart shows, described Larry as "the American Toulouse-Lautrec ... an enchanting man. He had such appeal.... He had this enormous head and a very heavy beard that had to be shaved twice a day... And he was always rubbing his hands together. That...
DIED. R.W.B. LEWIS, 84, Pulitzer-prizewinning author (for 1975's Edith Wharton: A Biography) and longtime Yale scholar who helped pioneer the field of American Studies; of cancer; in Bethany, Conn. A professor of English and American studies for 29 years, Lewis published his last work, a biography of Dante, to critical acclaim last year...
...HOBNOBBING WITH THE SNOBS: Kirkus is amused by "Snobbery: The American Version" by Joseph Epstein (Houghton Mifflin; July 9). "Clever, prolific Epstein turns his wit to the pernicious, universal failing previously addressed by such worthies as Edith Wharton, Tom Wolfe, Russell Lynes, and even Father Mencken, among countless others. Dissecting snobbery in all its current manifestations, Epstein (English/Northwestern) examines the ways in which people who pursue lives of invidious comparison may judge you (and surely find you wanting) in matters of employment, education, income, affiliations, intellectual interests, spouse(s), ethnicity, favored comestibles, politics, celebrity, dogs and not least progeny...
...same is true for the rest of the cast, with the glaring exception of Sarah M. Wheeler ’03, whose Edith relies more on mannerism than acting. Yet despite this asynchronous performance, the townspeople of Judevine are rendered sharply by Budbill and brought lovingly to life by actors who savor the dialogue and genuinely seem to care for one another...