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...lovable old grandpa on The Waltons' TV series, but Actor Will Geer, 73, is still the leading man in some circles. Last week Geer, along with ex-Wife Herta Ware and Protégé Michael Wilson, trouped through Chicago retirement hotels with a program of poetry and song. "We do little pieces of authors that these old girls might remember," said Geer of his readings from Robert Frost and Walt Whitman. The white-haired women in his audiences seemed appreciative, but they were still a surprise to the actor. "People talk out loud just as they do when...
THERE ARE BASICALLY two things that Herta Loeser has to say in Women, Work and Volunteering. One is that women of all age, classes and occupational status can find something interesting and exciting to volunteer for. Hence it is good. Two is that volunteering, being unpaid and service, oriented, means helping other people. Hence, it is good...
Speaking at a colloquium at the Institute, Herta Loeser said that women experience the "empty nest syndrome" when their children grow up and begin to leave home. She said that such a woman becomes "aware, whether dramatically or only gradually and dimly through a sense of dissatisfaction, that she is lost and at loose ends, that she must find something...
...recognize each other's existence. The issue is the execution of a union leader named Krasnitz, who shot a plant owner when the man tried to cross a picket line. The facts make any judgment questionable, but to John, of course, Krasnitz is simply a murderer, and to Herta he is a martyr of the class war. As stubborn husband and angry wife sit before the television set waiting for Krasnitz to walk his last mile, the author examines his characters in two long microscopic flashbacks that take up the remainder of the novel...
These life histories are soundly written and the people they describe are interesting enough. But the book's structure is dissatisfying: the flashbacks bring John and Herta back to the present time and then simply drop them there on the last page-still sitting in grim, unhappy silence. The author promises a Shavian clash of right and left, Adam and Rib. and several times seems on the point of producing one. But he settles too easily for tepid psychologizing, of which Liere is a surfeit these days, rather than social satire, which is in short supply. What could have...