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There are confrontations with 1930s left-wing intellectuals and de facto existentialists of the wartime '40s. There is Jed's marriage to an unnervingly placid girl from North Dakota who dies young of cancer. The longest and best-furnished setting of the novel is Nashville, Tenn., during the postwar years. There Tewksbury teaches at a university, bends elbows with the horsy set and conducts the great love affair of his life. Significantly, it is with a girl from his own home town, now married to a rich sculptor. In Rozelle Hardcastle, Warren has forged a considerable Southern heroine...
...center of the dispute is the union's claim that Gorski's drive to improve the force's efficiency by increasing the size of each officer's beat and instituting a de facto freeze on hiring has lowered morale on the force. Union officials say there is a "deep mistrust of the chief of police" among union members as a result of the changes, and would like to see a reduction in working hours to make up for the increased workload. One union spokesman suggested that Gorski's reorganization might be part of a larger University plan "to rid itself...
...they had to do was take their case to Jimmy and he'd give them what they wanted." They learned differently. Producing a balanced budget by fiscal 1981 is one of Carter's main goals over the next four years. Hamilton Jordan, who was emerging as de facto chief of staff of the White House, supplied the political rationale: "If we balance the budget [by then], politically no one can touch Jimmy Carter...
...recognized leaders of today's women's movement are alumnae of women's colleges who credit their alma maters for shaping their feminism. Graduates of these schools who are public officials or corporate officers--in greater numbers than women from coeducational schools--did not succeed against de facto or de jure discrimination by being ladylike. Such education is hardly a failure...
...offices there were destroyed. Abandoning the central area, many Christian and Moslem businessmen are reopening in their own religious enclaves. Victor Kassir, president of Beirut's merchants' association, fears that "if the central district is left as a ruined no man's land, Beirut may de facto become partitioned permanently." One proposal: to bulldoze the entire 30-block area into the Mediterranean as landfill for a new skyscraper commercial district, leaving the old city center as a vast park with underground space for 6,000 cars...