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Bins of Beads. The revival of Esclarmonde is the idea of Richard Bonynge. Over the years he has earned grudging respect from critics for his workmanlike conducting, but his real talent is in finding music that will show in some new way his wife Joan Sutherland's extraordinary voice...
At the other end of town, Ralph Gawber, an aging accountant, is also waiting. But Gawber's personal drama is not of a new beginning, it is of surviving by "patience, belt-tightening and bookkeeping" through the fast-approaching end. The chaos of migrant families spilling onto his road and...
One hears many arguments about expediency, diplomacy and other high-sounding terms, but it all comes down to this: it is a terrible thing when a white deprives poor blacks of some vague political rights and an intangible called human dignity, but nobody really cares if these same poor blacks...
Lo, the poor Indian! Whose untutor'd mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.
MORE CONSCIOUSLY, more deliberately than perhaps any other novelist in America today, John Updike creates characters whose private dramas mirror the dilemmas of their age. Intermittently they are reminded of the business of the world outside their own lives, of spaceshots and test ban treaties and civil rights confrontations. In...