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...does not make the descent into economic obsolescence gracefully. Faced with the ignominy of pleading for jobs at a string of recession-time construction sites, he is left with no alternatives but to work as a night-watchman, or to accept a job with his brother, a small-time merchant, benevolent and argyle-sweatered, still hoping that there are fortunes to be made in "surplus" Harry cannot resign himself to either task, particularly since he, and the audience, have little doubt that he is facing his last months...
...generally depressing as things tend to move from bad to worse for all the characters. The only success story we come across is that of a crippled black man who makes it as a car thief. The minor characters--Benson's spacy yet sympathetic bride, her phrenologist-pet merchant mother, and Harry's brother--are well-portrayed, each contributing convincingly to the tapestry of Middle America fallen on hard times. Scenery of construction sites, factories and dreary Florida suburbs add to the general air of hopelessness...
...whole relationship between writing and reading in these prerevolutionary years was undergoing significant changes that reached beyond politics. Darnton endeavors to demonstrate the change from the letters that a young merchant in La Rochelle wrote to the bookseller who regularly sent him the new works of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. In Darnton's view, Rousseau's preachings first established "the author as Prometheus" and his readers as emotional disciples. Darnton also finds rich social implications in folk tales like "Little Red Riding Hood...
...Austrian coffee merchant and his Rumanian wife, Bernhard grew up in Brooklyn. A Phi Beta Kappa, he earned a degree in English from Williams College, then got a job writing theater reviews for TIME in 1925. His pay: $10 a week. Hoping to make more money, Bernhard left after a few months and eventually wandered to Wall Street. There he earned $6,000 a year before losing his job during the Depression. He recalls, "I had a couple of weeks there when I was trying to decide whether to jump off a bridge...
...there is another pleasure: confiding to the diary-and now to any Briton with ?12.95 to spend-his colleagues' amorous intrigues (but rarely his own). In 1975 he reports that Pinter is "wildly and happily in love" with Lady Antonia Fraser while still married to Actress Vivien Merchant. In an irate letter, Pinter denounced Hall for relating "matters of the utmost privacy." As for Hall, he says regretfully: "We had a marvelous collaboration. Now there is no hope of getting him back...