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...Harriet Miller Trumbull, Conn...
...HARRIET WAUGH 250 pages. Little, Brown...
...catholic a taste in carryings-on suggests the author's father, Evelyn Waugh. Inevitably Daughter Harriet, a sometime editor and technician in the London planetarium who has now written a first novel at 31, suffers in comparison, not only with Father but with precocious Brother Auberon, 35, who turned out The Foxglove Saga 15 years ago. Evelyn satirized his peers and times by following sane characters through a giddy world. Harriet uses the much less engaging converse: crazy people, sane society. The father's unremittingly inhospitable view of humanity lent his books bite and pace. The daughter...
Richard Hope, not content with simply writing most of the songs in the show, bounces around as a rolly-polly pair of twins, cornering the laugh market whenever he rolls on stage. Only Harriet Kittner, who doubles as Tom Mix, the bartender, and Clementine, the supposedly dead heiress, lacks the lines to develop her comic expertise. As Clementine, the theoretical heroine who falls short of that role because the authors spent so much time developing the surfelt of leading characters. Kittner must restrain her comic abilities. She supplants here talent with an out-of-character solemnity that makes the audience...
...taken the lead in defending contractual seniority. Says Lawyer Michael Gottesman, who argued for the union in the Watkins case last week: "Because older workers fare so badly in seeking other employment, it is not surprising that they cling desperately to the employment they have." Columbia Law Professor Harriet Rabb focuses on an opposing concern. "The victims of recession are those excluded in the first place," she says. "Affirmativeaction programs have upset the traditional rules of hiring. They can upset the rules for layoffs as well...