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NONFICTION: China Men, Maxine Hong Kingston •Heartsounds, Martha Weinman Lear •Laughing in the Hills, Bill Barich •Philosophy and Public Policy, Sidney Hook The Oak and the Calf, Alexander Solzhenitsyn •Thirty Seconds, Michael J. Arlen •War Within and Without, Anne Morrow Lindbergh
MARRIED. Lucie Désirée Arnaz, 28, daughter of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, who played a flaky lyricist in the Broadway musical They're Playing Our Song; and Actor Laurence Luckinbill, 45; both for the second time; in Kingston...
...poignancy of that moment is the fruit of stunning historical reconstruction coupled with the imagination of a novelist. Ransacking what she has heard from her family and read in books, Kingston becomes a succession of her male relatives, grandfathers, father, uncles and younger brothers. In the process, she tests a theory that she had developed as a girl...
...pain or death. He goes to Viet Nam and sees the Orient for the first time, reversing the trip made by so many of his forebears. And he comes home, not to China but to California, where, as an uncle had once shouted, "we belong." At the very end, Kingston resolves to "watch the young men who listen...
...should listen to her. Her voice, alternately angry, calm, sardonic and compassionate, spins healing magic. The term chinamen is a literal and figurative slur, a squeezing to gether of words for the purpose, intended or not, of diminution. China Men puts the pause back where it belongs. Maxine Hong Kingston, a woman warrior indeed, stares down her men in equal combat; ultimately, this granddaughter, daughter and sister helps them win the respect their dignity deserves. -Paul Gray...