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Carolyn G. Heilbrun stepped down after 32 years at Columbia. The school's poor record of tenuring women was one example of its neglect for her scholarly interests, she said, and one reason for her resignation...
...Yale history professor Paul Kennedy, who received an advance of about $20,000 from Random House for his surprise 1988 best seller, The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, got $600,000 from the same publisher to write a second book that will take years to finish. Carolyn Heilbrun, whose nonfiction books have never sold more than 20,000 copies, just walked away with $350,000 from W.W. Norton for a biography of feminist Gloria Steinem...
...suddenly becomes a World War II vet, for example. The denouement of the mystery is predictable and dull. And a minor annoyance: Cross's work suffers from the classic academician's addiction to the semi-colon. Alas, it is no surprise, considering Amanda Cross is, in real life, Carolyn Heilbrun, a tenured professor of English at (of all places) Columbia...
With the exception of Margaret Heilbrun's kindly, effusive Aunt Julia, the other performances also fail to satisfy. Like Hedda, Judge Brack treats those around him with ironically-concealed scorn, matching Hedda's intelligence and selfishness in an intricate struggle for power. But Sam Merrick's wooden caricature blunts Aquino's subtlety. By the end of the play, his languid arrogance and unvarying inflection--each line curved with a sneer--have become thoroughly tiresome. While Ibsen undoubtedly intended Thea Elvsted to be a bland contrast to Hedda, Jennifer Mohr's dull, anxious characterization offers no emotional range or sense...
...have only one question: Did Dr. Heilbrun graduate from Wellesley before or after her three children were born...