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...latter-day comic-book Lois broke off from Superman in 1982 because their relationship, such as it was, "didn't seem to be working anymore." But they remain friends. After a recent rescue, she offered him some white wine and brie. Lois has won a Pulitzer Prize. And she is dating none other than Lex Luthor, the onetime mad scientist, now transformed into the "most powerful man in Metropolis." This is liberation...
Peter Lovesey's Bertie and the Tinman (Mysterious Press; 212 pages; $15.95) features a first-person amateur detective who is none other than the Prince of Wales, Queen Victoria's son and heir. Lovesey proved himself the world's foremost concocter of latter-day Victoriana in his series of mysteries built around Sergeant Cribb, then echoed the early 20th century in the nostalgic Hollywood story Keystone and the brilliantly plotted thriller The False Inspector Dew. Here he returns to 19th century London and, as always, to a subtle but relentless dissection of Britain's unjust social-class system. The rueful...
Hart's megalomonia probably is slightly less divine, though. He's too existential to think he--or anyone else--is a messiah. Instead, he seems to fancy himself some latter-day "Great Legislator." Many philosophers--all of whom Hart has read--spend a great deal of time waxing eloquent about the need of a people for such a visionary and just man to set down laws for them and to lead them to the promised land of social harmony and peace. Hart clearly thinks himself a neo-liberal, technocratic Moses...
...threats to academic freedom and freedom of speech are overt, a la the rantings of Accuracy in Academia and other latter-day McCarthyites. In a report released last week, two Harvard officials make clear that the restrictions placed by the Reagan Administration on the free flow of information subtly have eroded "democratic values, freedom of speech, and the openness of U.S. society...
None of them could have dreamed that Jesse Jackson, candidate for President of the U.S., would, 50 years later, set up his Iowa headquarters on that forgotten corner. What strange force brought a man of world renown, a fire- breathing latter-day populist, to that dot of earth, that little corner of a small town that was never witness to anything more grand than a merry-go- round, a high school band concert and an ice-cream social...