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...most people, has an active Them-and-Us reflex, and his real biases are generational. He grouses dolefully about the slide in professional standards, the decline of civility and the thoughtlessness of youth. In what could be called a novel of bad manners, Begley again demonstrates that he can reveal the complexities of society and personality with a clear eye and graceful style. Schmidt may not live up to today's strict standards of political correctness, but he more than meets the requirements of convincing fiction...
...that they will be casting their ballots for? The government-must-do-more Democrat elected four years ago? Or the President Bob Dole has taunted as trying "to be a good Republican" in order to win re-election? Or will a second term reveal some yet-unseen Clinton, entering the first four-year period of his adult life in which he does not have to worry about the next election and free at last to do...what...
...existence as a painful, poignant marking of time between the crib and the crypt helped define our world view in the atomic age. In doing so, they correct the canard that Beckett's work is boring, mired in gloom; the Gate pieces were darkly funny and passionate. And they reveal Beckett, who may seem so forbidding and remote as to be of another species, as a stoic but gentle man, a hero of the French Resistance and a generous soul--he once impulsively gave his new jacket to a derelict in a Montparnasse bar--who tried to relieve the suffering...
...NASA's unmanned Viking ships of the 1970s, Pathfinder will land on Mars' pockmarked surface. Unlike the Vikings, Pathfinder will have someplace to go once it gets there. After the pyramid-shaped payload touches down, its sides will open like the petals of a 3-ft.-tall flower to reveal a six-wheeled rover. Powered by solar cells and D-cell batteries, the 2-ft.-long robot vehicle is supposed to hum away from the landing pod, crawling at 2 ft. a minute, and sample the soil for several weeks--or until its batteries...
...upset with old Joe are taking yourselves too seriously, if not bordering on entertaining delusions of godhood. It's time for a reality check. Did you really think anyone would go to the trouble (not to mention the marketing expense) of creating the Anonymous cover only to reveal the truth immediately upon being asked? After the book was published, the first reaction from your corner was to say the writer had to be one of you. Well, you were right. LYNN CAPEHART San Diego...