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...Class Reunion, Jaffe 10. Sphinx, Cook
...CLASS REUNION by Rona Jaffe Delacorte; 338 pages...
Remember The Group - Mary McCarthy's novel about eight college girls and how they grew? Change Vassar to Radcliffe, the '30s to the '50s, take away the wry tone, and you have Rona Jaffe's readable reworking, Class Reunion. The four women in her sorority are archetypes...
Although Jaffe remarks that there were "civil rights uprisings in the South" and that "the Watergate hearings went on and on," such external events have little effect on her women. When they gather for a 20th reunion in 1977, their preoccupations are unaltered: clothes and contraception, careers and families, the right cars and the right men. It is a formula that Jaffe has cannily employed in her earlier books, and a sequel may soon provide another: in the epilogue, Annabel's daughter Emma is looking forward to going to-where else?-Radcliffe...
Both events, along with a panel discussion entitled "Harvard College in the '70s," are sponsored by the Class of '69 ad hoc committee on Harvard and South Africa and are part of a series of events for the 10th reunion of the Class...