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Early retired and recently widowed, Albert Schmidt is at a lonely but attractive crossroads, contemplating his fate somewhere in Bridgehampton, Long Island, a summer sporting grounds for New York City's diverse meritocracy. Schmidt's own credentials are hard-earned: a sheepskin from Harvard and a partnership at a leading Manhattan law firm. He also belongs to a high caste: the Wasp establishment that first built the shingled 14-room "cottages" and exclusive country clubs of the Hamptons...
Louis Begley's About Schmidt (Knopf; 274 pages; $23) peels back a layer or two of this weekend world, where the old gentry and gregarious newcomers have little in common except tax brackets. Begley is himself a New York City lawyer turned writer who has fictionalized delicate matters of class and ethnicity before. For instance, his earlier novel The Man Who Was Late (1992) is about a New York City lawyer who, as a Jew, always feels somewhat on the outside in his white-shoe firm...
...Schmidt, on the other hand, knows his position: a 60-year-old retiree who must face changing circumstances. Unplugged from a regular and generous income, he must cope with a reduced cash flow by giving up his Fifth Avenue apartment to live full time in Bridgehampton. He must also cope with his daughter Charlotte, a public relations executive who dissembles for tobacco companies and is engaged to Jon Riker, Schmidt's former protege at the firm of Wood & King...
...screens in the Olympic Stadium media subcenter, one could see arms being raised, in victory or despair. A man called Talant scored with two minutes left to lift Spain to the medal round, above Egypt, in team handball, 20-19. The perennial Olympian, basketball hero Oscar Schmidt, in his fifth and last Games, put up an absurd shot for Brazil with 17 seconds left, and it fell in, and Puerto Rico was defeated. In the new sport of women's softball, an American pitcher was one strike away from a perfect game when reality fell asleep--she gave...
...wage for our children requires more than simply pouring money into programs like Head Start. There is a component of morals and values to it. The sooner we can reach a consensus on what those morals and values are, the quicker we will begin saving our children. STEFFEN W. SCHMIDT, Professor Department of Political Science Iowa State University Ames, Iowa...