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The Snow Ball, like the best of Gurney's plays, is full of virtuosities. It is deft, insightful and winsome. The author's persistent tic is an unwillingness, perhaps an inability, to tell a straightforward story. No more than a few pages at a time of The Snow Ball unfold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Revelations the Snow Ball | 2/25/1985 | See Source »

Jerome Kagan, professor of developmental psychology, says that "many books have been written about the psychology of sex differences, but the majority haven't been deep or profound. Carol is one of the few people who has written an insightful book on the subject." But McClelland says that while Gilligan...

Author: By Rebecca K. Kramnick, | Title: Putting Women Into the Equation | 9/17/1984 | See Source »

Told mostly from the boy's point of view, Careful is a remarkably a curate and insightful portrait of a child torn between manipulative adults Although too young to understand the full implications of their selfishness and occasional perversity. "PS" so named by his bohemian mother "as a postscript to...

Author: By Melissa I. Weissberg, | Title: Child's Eye View | 8/3/1984 | See Source »

Jerome Kagan, professor of developmental psychology, says that "many books have been written about the psychology of sex differences, but the majority haven't been deep or profound. Carol is one of the few people who has written an insightful book on the subject." But McClelland says that while Gilligan...

Author: By Rebecca K. Kramnick, | Title: Putting women in the equation | 6/7/1984 | See Source »

Cobb's drive to succeed and the intense unhappiness he suffered as a result of his fits of anger, are well portrayed in Alexander's book, which offers a striking psychological portrait of the man. But instead of using this portrait as a jumping-off point for some broader observations...

Author: By Michael J. Abramowitz, | Title: TYrant of the Diamond | 4/25/1984 | See Source »

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