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...husband, a grubby little librarian whose lifework is a thesis on an obscure medieval plumber, is the most pitiful and yet by all odds the most human of De Broca's characters. He knows very well that his wife is unfaithful yet he hides what he knows, partly because he loves his wife, partly because he despises himself, mostly because he is afraid to rock the boat. When she runs off to assignations he stays home to mind the babies; when she comes home he tells her how fresh her skin looks, how bright her eyes are. And sometimes...
...trouble stems from a flagging of spirit. Of the fire-breathing militants who led labor to the top, most are now either dead or senescent, and only the Auto Workers' Walter Reuther remains as a towering national figure. A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany, a onetime apprentice plumber, acts as a caretaker instead of a crusader. In a significant interview last week, Meany shrugged off the A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s declining membership as a matter of interest only to individual unions. "We have no plans for any membership drive," he said. "The responsibility is not ours." Similarly, he recognized...
...Powell urged the ouster of A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany on an unexpected charge: absenteeism. Noting that Meany refused to "tear himself away from the Florida sunshine to testify on the important minimum-wage bill," Powell, who usually plays his own hooky in Puerto Rico, evaluated the onetime Bronx plumber as "stupid" and "absolutely zero as a lobbyist and leader...
TIME quotes Clark Kerr, president of the University of California, as saying: "You use it like a plumber uses a wrench." Kerr talks good, like a college head should...
...Human Season, by Edward Lewis Wallant. The author has chosen a dark theme for his uncommonly well-written first novel-an aging plumber's bout with melancholy after the death of his wife...