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Divorced. Professor Arthur Schlesinger Jr., 53, educator and Pulitzer-prizewinning historian (The Age of Jackson, 1945, A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House, 1965) who served J.F.K. as a special assistant; by Marian Cannon Schlesinger, on grounds of cruel and abusive treatment; after 30 years of marriage, four children; in Cambridge, Mass. Alimony: $4,700 a month...
...feel the case study method of learning law is irrelevant after the first year," Marian R. Penn, a third-yea student and one of the founders of the paper, said yesterday, "We feel we should have the opportunity to use the school as a base to get out in the community to do something...
...this point, The Edible Woman assumes the force of a banal dream that has turned, without the dreamer's quite noticing, into a nightmare. The metaphor of cannibalism takes over until all the characters appear as predators. The only hope allowed Marian at the end: if she becomes a consumer again herself, life may appear "normal" to her once more...
Novelist Atwood's quietly awful vision is summed up in a throwaway line. "Hunger is more basic than love," she murmurs in a bizarre aside. "Florence Nightingale was a cannibal." Amid the situation-comedy ordinariness of her life, Marian, the title character of The Edible Woman, suddenly finds herself in a very unfunny predicament. People are trying to eat her up. Her employers feed upon her energy, her fiance feeds upon her sexuality...
Sickened at discovering that all life is a form of cannibalism, Marian gives up eating meat-and finally gives up eating altogether. Even cake comes to feel "cellular against her tongue, like the bursting of thousands of tiny lungs...