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Shalit longs for all sorts of corseted restraints. She wants policemen to stop her if she smooches in public, and society to "young lady" her, as in, "Young lady, what are you doing?" But do grown women really want to be young ladied? Karen Lehrman, author of The Lipstick Proviso, agrees that women want courting and less coarseness, but not a staid modesty. "I think a better word is elegance," she says, pointing to Lauren Bacall and Grace Kelly in their subtle but steely glory. Now there's something worth returning...
...books which reveal the vast differences within today's children's literature are Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie and Loving the Earth: A Sacred Landscape Book for Children written by Fredric Lehrman, with illustrations by Lisa Tune. The first is notable for the success Rushdie achives in a difficult area. The second book is remarkably bad; irritating and uninspired, Loving the Earth's only redeeming quality is its illustration...
Lines like, "Take a big breath. See how your chest fills up? That's the sky inside of you" join with suggestions to hug trees and to walk around lamps to understand what it is like for the earth to orbit the sun. Lehrman's explainations of natural phenomena are elementary even for a young child. This book is innane and authoritarian...
...School of Government. Alumni will describe the events of the '69 strike and their effect on the students and the rest of the Harvard community. Alumni will also play an audio tape of the police break-in of University Hall narrated by ABC-news correspondent Chris Wallace '69. Leonard Lehrman will perform the SDI Waltz...
...apologizing for his actions, then handed the three- to four-hour session over to his legal advisers. They explained that the fund would be liquidated as part of Boesky's agreement with the SEC to remove himself from stock-trading activities over the next 16 1/2 months. Said Lewis Lehrman, a former Republican gubernatorial candidate in New York State, who had plunked down $1 million on Boesky's speculative endeavors but who skipped the session: "I would say that Mr. Boesky disappointed a lot of people, me included...