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Brownmiller attempts a novelist's overview, tracing the domestic tyrannies that slowly escalate to mutilation and death. But her squabbling adults have little more personality than Punch and Judy, and their maltreated daughter is a mere shadow. Waverly Place takes 294 pages to express what W.H. Auden did in a quatrain: "I and the public know/ What all schoolchildren learn,/ Those to whom evil is done/ Do evil in return...
...achievements of women in Hollywood's early days both behind the screen and as actresses were impressive and important. Carey's thorough, fact-filled account of Loos' career is a useful overview of one woman's career. But it lacks depth or an ability to evaluate the significance of a woman's contribution to a male industry. A book that treats these issues with thoughtful analysis and a broader perspective has yet to be written. Carey's account is but a useful chronicle for that future historian...
...economic follies of a few entrepeneurial football owners" should be the subtitle of The $1 League, an overview of the economic downfall of the United States Football League written by the league's director of public relations, Jim Byrne...
...general overview that preceded Marius' lecture, Dean of Freshman Henry C. Moses discussed the rules for dual submission and collaboration. He also said "the use of work by others" in computer programs is subject to the same restrictions applied to written material...
These policy proposals, which form the core of Poor Support, are rounded out by analytical discussions of the causes of poverty, both social and economic, and with some historical overview of the reasons for the current welfare morass...