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...Emperor Norton...
...widely heralded study, published this week, indicates that the glass isn't quite full but isn't cracked either. In For Better or For Worse: Divorce Reconsidered (W.W. Norton; 320 pages; $26.95), E. Mavis Hetherington, a psychology professor emeritus at the University of Virginia, and her co-author John Kelly declare that 75% to 80% of children of divorce are functioning well, with little long-term damage. The claims are sure to stir debate over the delicate, brutal decision to end a marriage. They have already riled other family researchers...
...John Kennedy. They had, in the words of their most recent biographer, Mary S. Lovell, a "remarkable energy, joie de vivre and self-confidence" that made them seem almost like mythological creatures. Yet as Lovell notes in her introduction to The Sisters: The Saga of the Mitford Family (Norton; 611 pages; $29.95), people younger than 50 probably haven't heard of the Mitford girls...
...RADIO FREE IRAQ: Will Iraq soon be center stage? Better check out "The Reckoning: Iraq and the Legacy of Saddam Hussein" by Sandra Mackey (Norton; May). The book is an account of the forces that produced Saddam's dictatorship. According to her publisher, "This book sounds an urgent note of caution: a future Iraq without Hussein could be even more unstable and more problematical to the security of the United States...
Past recipients of the Charles Eliot Norton professorship of poetry have included such luminary figures as Leonard Bernstein ’39, Jorge Luis Borges, e.e. cummings ’15, T. S. Eliot ’10, Robert Frost, Frank Stella and Igor Stravinsky. Musicologist Joseph Kerman was the most recent Norton professor, serving for the 1997-1998 academic year...