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EMILY Stephen Metcalfe's farce at San Diego's Old Globe Theater slyly sent up contemporary mores and materialism. Madolyn Smith's beguiling performance gave the self-absorbed yuppie title character an unlikely likability.
A SUMMONS TO MEMPHIS by Peter Taylor. The second novel by a 70-year-old master of the short form casts an amused glance back at manners, mores and a family squabble in the Upper South between the two world wars.
James has constructed a slick and engaging plot for A Taste for Death. But what makes her work more than just well-polished fiction is her consistently vivid characterizations and keen insights into daily human experience. Aside from a solid mystery, A Taste for Death is an effective psychological exploration...
A few days before the Senate adjourned last month, Barry Goldwater sat in his office sorting memorabilia. The model of an Apache antitank helicopter was destined for the Arizona Air National Guard. A rare 1964 record album, The Goldwaters Sing Folk Songs to Bug the Liberals, was headed for his...
In that essay, Pakaluk writes: "There is, I hold, a direct link between widespread acceptance of the mores of sexual promiscuity and a decline in the liberal arts....And I hold, furthermore, that Harvard, insofar as it takes no step to encourage chastity among its students, adopts a policy that...