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...generation that endured to see its values-not well defended but well believed in-derided across the generation gap. The genre is women's fiction, and the book lapses occasionally into jargon and sentimentality. But in a very short compass, with extraordinary deftness, humor and a rueful shrewdness edging toward wisdom, it rises above genre to something not unlike small genius. "Nowadays, everyone knows a little something about the mind," thinks the lady, "though it doesn't seem to have helped as much as one could wish." And that's true...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Variously Notable | 11/19/1973 | See Source »

...institution significantly named the Donner Pass College for Women, the author pits a pair of middle-aged Eastern Jewish intellectual males against a covey of young Western Baptist extroverted females. To this year's Donner Pass Symposium for Distinguished Visitors come an obnoxious poet, Fox, and a weary, rueful professor, Isaiah Greene. Greene is at first charmed despite himself by the earnest and buxom simple-mindedness of the girls and their quaint collegiate rituals. What troubles him is the crassness of his odious colleague, the loudmouthed, girl-chasing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Variously Notable | 11/19/1973 | See Source »

Died. Gladys Bertha ("G.B.") Stern, 83, prolific, witty British novelist who wrote an average of one novel a year between 1920 and 1964; in Wallingford, England. Stern was best known for Monogram, The Rueful Mating and a five-book family saga, The Matriarch, that became a successful London play and a Hollywood movie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 1, 1973 | 10/1/1973 | See Source »

...such as this that urgency becomes blunted and worn through repetition. Heston, forsaking his granite stoicism for once, makes a properly gruff policeman, but it is likely that Soylent Green will be most remembered for the last appearance of Edward G. Robinson, who plays a cantankerous intellectual. In a rueful irony, his death scene, in which he is hygienically dispatched with the help of piped-in light classical music and movies of rich fields flashed before him on a towering screen, is the best in the film...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Quick Cuts | 4/30/1973 | See Source »

...movies about backstage Hollywood, but nobody is laughing at Agent Sue Mengers, who carries on such phone conversations nonstop from a desk piled high with scripts. "They never laugh at success," Mengers notes dryly. As a vice president of mighty Creative Management Associates, Sue Mengers is, in the rueful words of one of her ex-clients, "more powerful than the stars she handles." An overestimation, perhaps, but Mengers' list of personal clients is largely above-the-title: Barbra Streisand, Ryan O'Neal, Ali McGraw, Candice Bergen, Gene Hackman, Tony Perkins, Tuesday Weld, Directors Herb Ross, Peter Bogdanovich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Sweet and Sour Sue | 3/26/1973 | See Source »

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