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Just what Hardy really thought of Emma nobody knows. His letters to her, here published for the first time, are brisk, brief, clear, and concerned with those few topics Hardy could discuss with his wife without getting into an argument-the weather, wedding receptions and funerals, train schedules and cats...
Self-Punishment. Lodge has his own squad of pretty girls, his own staff of bright young men, his own army of volunteers, his own attractive wife, and, for good measure, a houseful of six children. To get Lodge ready for Teddy, Grindle put him through two grueling day-and-night...
Burnett blends pure waffles-and-syrup Americana with a tomboyish hoydenism and emerges as the girl next door, only vastly more amusing. In 1952, she was industriously studying journalism at U.C.L.A. ("I wanted to be Brenda Starr") when, as part of a course in playwriting, she was required to take...
Far from depriving her family of some of her attention, studying forces her to make the best use possible of the time she has. A houseful of shouting children is an amazing improver of one's powers of concentration-Victor Hugo will bear me out.
Sen. John Tower (R-Tex.), a conservative's conservative, recited the standard rightist line before an ecstatic houseful of Massachusetts Young Republicans Saturday night at the Harvard Club of Boston.