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...boss is by turns charming and demanding. Extremely demanding. His edict to top managers: "I don't need a $100 million mistake. Try to make it a $5 million mistake if you have to make one." Investment Banker Felix Rohatyn, who helped rescue New York City from insolvency in 1975, sums it up: "Lee is a man who can instill leadership in a crisis. He knows his business from front bumpers to back ends. He is the right man at the right time...
...arrival she is heavily involved in the lives of a career doctor who lives downstairs: a once promising teenage ballet dancer newly crippled in a car accident: a young bishop who looks strikingly like a man by whom Katherine secretly bore a child: and the bishop's retired predecessor, Felix Bodeway, who also figured in a previous L 'Engle novel about Katherine's youth...
...line straight out of soap opera ("She did not want the perspicacious doctor to guess that she was fascinated by the attractive young bishop"), but more often it reduces Katherine to a passive, dubious on looked at the complexity. She hardly knows what to think when her old friend, Felix, unexpectedly tells her the spent years cruising the gave bars Greenwich Village or when a young tenant comes running to her for advice on husband's infidelity and so her support is limited to words of undeniable wisdom but limited fictional effect...
...Small Rain. "I always knew I would go on and find out what happened to Katherine later in life," she says, "but I had to grow up enough to find out first." The same half whimsical treatment of her creations carries through to the minor characters, such as one Felix Bodeway who becomes Katherine's closest friend in A Severed Wasp after playing a decidedly tangential role in her youth. "I really didn't think any good would come of Felix," she says. "But when I started to write the second book, there...
...Felix in Wasp is a retired bishop-specifically, the retired bishop of St. John the Divine Cathedral in New York City, where L 'Engle has an office-and the haziness of his position between fiction and reality typifies the rest of L 'Engle's work. Several earlier novels are set in the same Upper West Side environs of the cathedral, which are described with enough detail and care to give visitor a shock of recognition at the subway stop. L 'Engle regularly sends her characters off to drink hungarian coffee at the same Colombia University coffee shop to which...