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Unalloyed success is hardly the stuff of gripping adventure, and Drabble wisely does not pretend otherwise. For plot, The Realms of Gold offers little more than the comical attempts of Frances and her professor-lover to reunite after an ill-conceived breakup. The tragedies in the book happen to others. A reclusive old relative of Frances' starves to death in a Midlands cottage; a nephew decides to leave the world he cannot take-and kills his infant daughter as well. Frances does not share this fatal pessimism. But she earnestly wants to know why she has been spared...
Moore liked to pretend that she was born into the Southern aristocracy. After wangling an invitation to visit the Hearst estate, she boasted that she had entered through the front door, implying that quality respected quality. Actually, she was born on Feb. 15,1930, into a middle-class family in Charleston, W. Va., where a candy-store keeper remembers that both she and, a few years later, Charles Manson, another Charleston resident, shopped for sweets. Her family name was Kahn; Moore is her mother's maiden name. After high school, she joined the WACS and received her first newspaper...
...countries who voted to bar Pretoria's delegates during the Bouteflika era. For different reasons, Israel will also not be a seriously divisive issue. Syria will call for Israel's ouster, but Egypt and other moderate Arab states, in the wake of the Sinai accord, will probably pretend not to hear...
...their attacks on American foreign policy, were not particularly militant about American society itself. After a heated political argument, a member of the Free German Youth, the mandatory-membership national youth organization in East Germany, turned to me, and said in a voice seeking understanding. "We don't pretend to know what's best for you, but at least no one dies of hunger here any more...
...observer-observed distortion with the case worker seems to be just a personal quirk; perhaps an example of how workers in a welfare department must pretend, in pseudo-scientific terms, that their decisions are based on objective criteria. The case of the black woman is part of a more easily defined phenomenon: people coming into welfare offices to get money when they're broke, at the end of the line, and have to do whatever they can do to get that money, including exploiting a camera filming case workers...