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...sociology--but pop without any snap or crackle. That's too bad, because Bell's training need not have been a liability. In his chapter on male Friendships. Bell makes the interesting point that his historical investigation have revealed a view of male friendship among nineteenth century men quite different from that of today's men. But he fails to develop that observation, even though it hunts at the kind of insight that might have added to the book...
JOURNEY of the Fifth Horse demands consideration on two levels. On the first, it cleverly interweaves the tales of two social misfits in the late-nineteenth century St. Petersburg. Zoditch (Richard Gruish), first reader in the ramshackle Grubove publishing Company, has turned sour and misanthropic in response to his social unacceptability. But Chulkaturin (Paul Benedict), an idle landowner of independent means, has adopted a gentle, wistfully philosophic air. His memoirs, submitted posthumously to the publishing company and read by Zoditch, constitute one of the play's two plots. The other revolves around Zoditch's impoverished life in a miserable boarding...
...business interests. Still, aging Fritz Tolm is a good choice for the job. He is not one of those suspect postwar tycoons who have had their SS tattoos removed by a discreet plastic surgeon. He ran a liberal paper, has been a scholarly author (The Rhenish Farmhouse in the Nineteenth Century), and is a bird watcher and armchair environmentalist. So the profits and honors roll in, the guilty conscience thrives, and poor old Tolm gives up bicycle riding because he cannot go out without two carloads of guards and a surveillance helicopter...
Saying he is bored with t.v. editorials, Oscar Handlin, Pforzheimer University Professor, announces he will produce a Broadway musical based on the great wave of immigration that marked the end of the nineteenth century. "It will be called 'Nativism as a Response to Large-Scale Population Influx,'" the historian/entrepreneur says. He adds that he has yet to find a backer for the project...
...consistent voice for moderation, Mrs. Trilling is not a neoconservative not only because there is nothing "neo" about her conservative views, but also because she refuses to cede the term "liberal" to those to her left. "I am understood by people who know my work to be a traditional nineteenth-century political liberal," she says. "Liberalism has all too frequently been defined in its century by one's toleration of Soviet Communism...