Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That sense of the ominous haunts Brooke Astor's novel: the worst is waiting to occur immediately after the curtain falls on the kind of fiction that has been out of style since the period it concerns. In this dry, sparkling comedy of manners, reminiscent of Edith Wharton's lighter works, the glitter is incessant. Emily Codway, a widow of a certain age -- nearly 60 actually, although she will only admit to 49 -- carries on a sunset flirtation with a fortyish Italian prince, Carlo Pontevecchio. Her sister-in-law Irma Shrewsbury, also a moneyed widow, is romanced by Charlie Hopeland...
...Massachusetts legislature this fall will almost certainly pass a novel measure designed to encourage municipalities to divest their pension funds from American companies that do business in South Africa, according to several representatives...
...this point, the novel could easily pass as a jumbled meld of popular movies: An Unmarried Woman meets Kramer vs. Kramer. What removes The Good Mother from its predictable ruts is Anna's willingness to give Leo the boot out of her life, if doing so will persuade the judge to let her keep Molly. She testifies at the trial: "I'd be willing not to see Mr. Cutter again." Romantic heroines, after all, are supposed to choose emotion over responsibility. But that was when there were suitable romantic heroes. Try as she might, Anna cannot convey the magic...
...readers. Feminists can applaud the pluck of the heroine and the swinishness of the men who oppress her. Moralists can point with satisfaction to the grueling consequences of Anna's licentiousness, the anxiety, humiliation and the trial itself, what she calls "the price I had to pay." And the novel generates enough suspense to tug even those readers who know they are being hoodwinked into its wake. But a shuffling of cliches does not qualify as a literary breakthrough. The author seems skillful enough to have tried something truly daring -- a story, say, about a woman who breaks up with...
...final opinion for the court, means that the Comptroller General is "subservient" to Congress and cannot be entrusted with Executive powers. In a vigorous dissent, Justice Byron White criticized the majority's adherence to a "distressingly formalistic view of separation of powers" to derail "one of the most novel and far-reaching legislative responses to a national crisis since the New Deal...