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From time immemorial-or at least since the first U.S. census was taken in 1790-the head of household has been identified for every house, hovel, plantation, apartment, coop, condominium, igloo and wigwam to which an intrepid census taker could wend...
...readily identifiable. With rare exceptions, he was a he who brought home the bacon, the caviar or the grits. His income, his education, the number of his progeny, his occupation were pondered by sociologists, planners, politicians and merchants. No matter how henpecked, he was undeniably the head of household in the Census Bureau statistics...
...Census Bureau knows when it is whipped. In 1980, head of household will disappear from Census forms...
...nell, studied butterflies at Harvard, and published stories in such magazines as Esquire and The New Yorker. The Real Life of Sebastian Knight (1941) and Bend Sinister (1947) earned high praise but few royalties. With the American edition of Lolita in 1958, Nabokov be came an unpronounceable household name.* It now seems incredible that only a generation ago a sexually unexplicit novel about a middle-aged man and a pubescent girl caused a national scandal. Yet the notoriety put the book on the bestseller list and Nabokov on the road to financial independence...
...these woes do not turn into soap opera. She is a sharp and lucid observer. But she is so detached and dignified that the novel lacks fire. Her gentility dulls the effectiveness of a potentially enlivening technique: the difficult one of mixing real Washington characters with fictional ones. Such household names as Ed Muskie, Hubert Humphrey, Henry Jackson, Lady Bird Johnson, Judy Agnew, Betty Ford Rosalynn Carter- and Gene McCarthy -move fleetingly through the story. All are portrayed in flattering terms...