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...changed from naturalistic to headlong melodramatic. In short order, an exotic singer and dancer named Magdalena Colon drowns while being ferried across the ice-clogged Hudson River en route from Albany to a theatrical engagement in Troy. The entertainer's body and the shivering form of her surviving niece Maud, 12, are fished out of the current and taken to the immense mansion of Hillegond Staats, a widow whose hospitality had regaled them before the accident...
...person who witnesses and reports all this is Daniel Quinn, an orphan approaching his 15th birthday who works for the roguish John the Brawn. This night is the making of Quinn and his book, for it is then that he falls helplessly in love with Maud and launches himself on the adventures that he will gradually learn to capture in words. "Quinn," he asks himself at one point, "when will you become wise, or even smart?" Quinn's Book provides the answer...
Popular wisdom holds that virtuosity on any instrument is a hard-won proposition, the product of years of painstaking study and practice. Despite the evidence of such performers as the pathbreaking American Maud Powell around the turn of the century or the brilliant Vienna-born Erica Morini, now 84 and in retirement, it also holds that the violin is properly a male preserve. But with age comes maturity, not mastery, and instruments are no respecters of gender. Although still young, today's crop of women violinists can already be judged on accomplishment rather than promise...
...several magazines. The best is Tribute, a glossy full-color monthly that profiles successful blacks and plays to their growing taste for the good life. It features splashy articles about fashion and travel interspersed with ads touting expensive perfumes and sports cars. Two years ago, says Tribute Editor Maud Motanyane, black radicals would have dismissed buppies as "irrelevant to the struggle." Not anymore. "Black businessmen are not apologizing for what they have and what they have achieved. They are saying, 'We might own our own big cars and houses, but like you, we really don't own the freedom...
...Maud Wilcox, the editor in chief of the HarvardUniversity Press, could not be reached forcomment...