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JOSEPHINE HERBST by Elinor Langer; Atlantic-Little, Brown; 374 pages...
...Elinor Langer's evocative, infatuated biography has brought the novelist to life with her quirky charm intact. Much of the book shows her as she appeared to her friends: more spontaneous and independent than any woman of her generation had a right to be. For more than 30 years she defended the underdog in leftist journals and in novels like Rope of Gold...
...more pertinent question posed by Langer's book might be: How well did Herbst's friends and admirers really know her? Apparently, not well enough. The misunderstanding is rooted in Herbst's involvement in the Communist Party after 1930. As Langer regretfully relates, when party interests were at stake Herbst was an accomplished liar. On occasion she could deceive herself. In 1930 the writer and her husband John Herrmann journeyed to the U.S.S.R. at the invitation of a party official. When they came home, Herbst plunged into party activities, just short of membership. Herrmann joined...
Given this track record, Harvard officials will be under extra pressure to make good on their pledge to come up with imaginative new ways to help Ph.D.'s get jobs. Kenneth Langer, a GSAS official, says placement issues are at the top of the agenda this year for the Graduate Student Council. But the one suggestion tossed out thus far--holding more seminars on alternative careers--hardly seems an adequate replacement for the high-powered assistance supplied by the discarded retooling program...
...former MBTA manager Robert R Kiley, former State Rep. Melvin H King, Boston City Councilor Raymond L. Flynn, Suffolk County Sheriff Dennis J. Kearney '72, former MBTA manager Robert R Kiley, former State Rep. Melvin H. King, Boston City Councilor Frederick Langone, and Socialist Workers' Party candidate Eloise Langer...