Word: minority
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Wilson manages to make most of the minor characters both real and fun. Giles' sister Margaret and her husband Monty are a sketch of the English public school house-master and his wife, but since they know that they are, a bit of realism manages to creep into the joke. Louise's mother, whom we meet only briefly, cheers characters and reader alike, combining dishpan-hands and a low-class accent with friendliness and a talent for the piano that she even reaches out to a blind...
...reputation. As capital of the most diminutive state in the Union, and home of Brown University--which shrewd young people recognize as an ephemeral fad and old folks remember as the school you went to if you couldn't get in anywhere else--it even lost its minor-league hockey team, the Rhode Island Reds, a few years back...
...HAVE ALWAYS wondered whether it would be worthwhile to sign up for one of those memory experiments that are always posted on the bulletin board in William James. They usually offer subjects about four dollars to perform some minor task just to see how you do. That is what Harvard is really about. The subjects do what they're supposed to do and wonder what the whole experiment is about...
...President is scheduled to hold seven hours of talks with Deng, Premier Zhao Ziyang and General Secretary Hu Yaobang. Reagan and Zhao will sign at least two documents, both relatively minor: a treaty that would eliminate double taxation on U.S. companies in China, and a two-year extension of a cultural exchange agreement reached in 1979. If last-minute negotiations pay off, the two leaders will endorse a deal allowing U.S. companies to build nuclear power plants in China. The discussion has been snagged over a U.S. requirement that any country receiving American nuclear technology seek U.S. consent before reprocessing...
...about his wife's bourgeois taste in furniture. The coincidence of husband and father immobilized by idealism gone stale is interesting. But in the end it hurts a novel in which there is no adult male with substance enough to cast a shadow. This is true even for minor characters; an interracial couple friendly to Jessie and Carll consists of a black wife who is a shrewd, forceful lawyer and a white husband so nearly nondescript as to be invisible...