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...their position. Instead, they just ask some reasonable questions: wouldn't business motives and moral scruples combined be a strong enough combination to keep planters from tearing apart families when they didn't have to? Why wouldn't the rich owner of a large plantation just keep a mistress in town, where she wouldn't trouble his wife or his labor supply? Or, if masters were so sexually attracted by their slaves that they didn't care about all this, why were there very few black prostitutes in the South? Finally--it's a question Fogel and Engerman never tire...
...night, Cornetist Rex Stewart and Trombonist Joe Nanton matched half pints of gin with each other-and a referee. By 9 a.m., the only one left standing was the referee, who happened to be Bandleader Duke Ellington. Recalling the incident last year in his autobiography Music is my Mistress, Ellington wrote, "I don't drink booze any more. I retired undefeated champ about 30 years...
...price of such relentless success appears when the reader learns that Andrews' wife, feeling that he no longer needed her, turned to drink. As a result she was a heavy liability to an ambitious man with a growing need for a presentable public partner. He secretly took a mistress. When the wife is eventually found dead, John Andrews is accused of murdering...
...weeks ago, after her family started a free-food program for the Bay Area's needy and aged that the S.L.A. had demanded. Then she stunned her family and friends by announcing that she had renounced them, joined her abductors, and adopted the name Tania, after the German-Argentine mistress of Latin American Revolutionary Che Guevara. Whether through conversion or coercion, she materialized last week in the role of a foul-mouthed bank robber. In the bewilderment shared by all who have followed the case, her anguished father Randolph A. Hearst exclaimed: "It's terrible! Sixty days...
...vision as solipsistic as Hawkes's, admitting no perspective more tangible than the narrator's fantasies, doesn't leave much room for secondary characters. Except for Allert, no one in this book "comes alive," as the handbooks say. The effete, intellectual psychiatrist, the intense, childlike mistress, and the sensuous, motherly wife all remain semi-real cartoons, and yet all expand to become figures of mythic proportion in Allert's private universe...