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Schorer was born in a provincial Midwestern town where he grew up in the gloomy atmosphere of a tightly-knit German immigrant community. Memories of grisly scenes such as a hanging, or even the dying of his injured dog provide a bleak background for the short stories. Without any annoying psychoanalysis Schorer portrays his raging father and his suicidal mother. Even though his history provides him plentiful opportunities for melodrama, the adult Schorer distances himself as much as possible from his boyhood emotions. He brusquely emphasizes the disadvantaged perspective of a child whose ignorance left the most important questions about...
...York cabs; if her destination is more than four blocks away, Gelsey starts waving an arm. On the street she is indistinguishable from the thousands of women who have achieved thrift-shop eclecticism, a mildly deracinated New York look: jeans or slacks, boots or clogs, bulky sweater, dangling scarf, knit...
...years in state prison on the grand-theft charge and one to 14 years on each of the three forgery counts. One serious problem for D.A. Van de Kamp: at a trial, he would have to persuade witnesses to testify against Begelman-no easy matter in the tightly knit film community which respects and fears powerful producers...
...Double-knit on parade...
...Ph.D. was still a rare and valued commodity, scholarly journals had not yet begun to proliferate and the academic community was small and closely knit. Education in general had not become the major industry it is today. Immediately after World War II high school and college enrollments began to increase rapidly. At first returning soldiers swelled the number of students; later an expanding population fueled the growth in demand for education. General Education was in part intended to help absorb the new influx of students coming from a more varied educational background. But the same developments that persuaded the Faculty...