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...clearly aged him. Unlike his friend Bill Clinton, "he never shouts at people; he's a motivator for his staff--even in a crisis he cracks jokes," says an adviser. He goes to movies, plays tough tennis, loves The Simpsons. He can even be seen pushing baby Leo's pram by himself in St. James's Park on a Sunday. But beyond the benign family man and the carefully primped "Strong Leader" campaign persona, there is always an edge of impatience...
...newly learned skills but also to coming back to the school for more advanced courses. For all of them, the stay in Brooklin is a valuable learning experience. For some, like Chris Everett, 16, a Danville, Vt., high school student who came to the school to build a Nutshell pram, it is something more. "When I finish high school, I'll go home with a diploma," says she. "When I finish up here, I'll go home with a boat." -By Peter Stoler
...asked her, predictably, about Women's Lib. "On the whole, I am with it," said Dame Rebecca. Nothing else that she said was in any way predictable. On women writers: "They seem hopelessly defeated by their domesticity. When I turn their pages, I see not just a pram in the hall but a whole house filled with prams, prams sideways up the stairs, prams in the back garden." On women at work: "The population is divided into people who like work and do it and people who hate work and don't do it-they are as distinct...
...book is a comic novel with decent depth to it and not an upturned raincoat collar in sight. Its faults are obvious though not crippling. There are bright but purposeless pages. Le Carre takes far too long to find his narrative's focus. His hero, a rich pram manufacturer who discovers Life, sometimes wambles about in the state of blithering idiocy invented by Evelyn Waugh to let the air out of the upper middle class and reproduced more easily and less funnily since then by each successive Englishman to write a light novel...
Aldo Cassidy, the pram king, is 36 years old and nice, but numb. His wife, whose frigidity extends beyond sex, calls him by nursery names. One day he meets Shamus, a wild writer and roaring boy, and Helen, Shamus' fine, warm wife. He falls in love quite innocently with the pair of them. "Gradually, with the aid of a third bottle of wine and several names supplied by Shamus," le Carre writes, "Cassidy formed a picture of this wonderful band of brothers, this few: a non-flying Battle of Britain squadron captained by Keats and supported by Byron, Pushkin...