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...Study in random libraries: Try the History Department's in Robinson Hall. Find Gutman...
...grouping women with children a raging anachronism? Should not any self-respecting modern person, let alone feminist, object to it as patronizing and demeaning to women? Yet its usuage is as common today as it was in 1912. Consider these examples taken almost at random from recent newspapers...
Deborah Garrison's A Working Girl Can't Win (Random House; 61 pages; $15) is an airy, appealing first book, much of which has already been published in the New Yorker, where Garrison, 33, is an editor. It follows a young urban professional in her confusing emotional commute from home to office, heart to head, the world of feeling to the world of work. Sweet and refreshing, though at times so light the lines dissolve on the page--"I'm never going to sleep/ with Martin Amis/ or anyone famous."--the verses go down easy, like frosty cocktails. Some...
...like a guilty and vicious old feudalism dying. The conquest of legal segregation and discrimination in the South is an ugly, heroic American story that ended, officially at least, with the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. In The Children (Random House; 783 pages; $29.95), David Halberstam takes up the narrative in early 1960, with the lunch-counter sit-ins in Greensboro, N.C., and Nashville, Tenn., that were the debut of a new civil rights generation, most of whose members were younger by five or 10 years than Martin Luther King...
...YORK: Continuing the conglomeration of all things media, German giant Bertelsmann AG snapped up America's largest publishing house Monday. Random House, which hires such pen-pushers as Michael Crichton, Norman Mailer and John Updike, was sold for an undisclosed sum. The big news for web users is that Bertelsmann, the world's third-largest media company (behind Time Warner and Disney), is in the midst of creating BooksOnline, a rival to Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble -- which will be a lot more comfortable with Random House's back catalog...