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Their influence has declined in the past 20 years, while the power of sociologists, economists and political scientists has ris en. The author's warmest portrait of success is revealing. It is of Wallace Stevens, a leading American poet who was also a vice president of an insurance company...
...raunchy comic relief there is Lavra (Lillian Evans), the self-styled former "playgirl of Moscow" from whom a few generous swigs of vodka can elicit a tipsy ode to the joys of sex. Her opposite number is prim, spartan Iva (Lenore Har ris), a dance-exercise buff who seems to revel in single blessedness until, in a passionate and poignant outburst, she reveals its lonely curse...
...last week showed Carter's overall approval rating slipping to 55% in late October, down from 62% in July. Other polls detect an even deeper public malaise. Of the people surveyed by the California poll, only 29% thought Carter was doing a good job as President. The Har ris poll found in October that only 26% of the public approved of Carter's handling of the economy, down from 46% in May. Moreover, 54% of those surveyed thought that the country was in a recession - a view not held by economists but one that indicates the depth...
...that little girls are mostly encouraged to confine their talents to parlor piano playing. Though women have always been accepted as soloists, only in recent years have many conservatories trained women as composers. "Think of the thousands and thousands of men who have studied composing," says Pianist-Conductor Bo ris Goldovsky, "to produce only about three dozen masters. Statistically, wom en may simply have to catch up before they have their Beethoven." There are signs they soon may be getting their chance. In June Manhattan's Juilliard School for the first time awarded a doctorate in composition...
Howar casts her book in a valedictory tone, as if taking leave of youthful vanity. Yet the conviction shines through her every line that she remains utterly important and captivating. Mor ris brings his heroine to the realization that everything she regarded as substantial "dwelled in fleeting mists: affirmation against the darkness"; however, he has her cast off her Congressman be cause "he is a loser" and turn again to "the Washington that awaited her" - presumably to clear away those mists with some rattling good dinner parties...