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...than houses, NBC leads in the number of viewers: 24.9 million to CBS's 23.2 million and ABC's 22.3 million, according to Nielsen. NBC also delivers more of Madison Avenue's prized target audience, the 18-49 age group; here ABC is second and CBS last. Says Joel Segal, executive vice president for broadcasting at Ted Bates Advertising: "By the standards of practically any advertiser...
...looker. Think of the opportunities!" The voluble, repetitious Bayoux cannot match her lunatic poignancy, but he can be an apt foil and in the end helps to prove that the immigrant novel, from Henry Roth's Call It Sleep to Isaac Bashevis Singer's Lost in America to Lore Segal's Her First American, remains inexhaustible...
...addition to the best and the brightest, the class of '58 has the bravest. Jason Gilbert, a thoroughly assimilated Jewish Adonis and the school's finest tennis player, surprises all by becoming a superhero in one of Israel's elite antiterrorist units. The last two in Segal's crimson quintet are Townie Theodore Lambros, son of a Greek restaurant owner, who fulfills his ambition to be a Harvard professor; and Banker Andrew Eliot, whose family ties to the university go back 300 years. For the record, the women in the book are all beautiful, intelligent and interchangeable...
...Segal follows his classmates into middle age with clarity, compassion and cliches: "He had sired three sons. But his daughter was the apple of his eye." Rossi squanders his gifts to feed an addiction for applause; Keller very nearly makes it to the top in the State Department before he cracks under the weight of his past; Gilbert starts out like John McEnroe and ends up resembling Paul Newman in Exodus; and Lambros outpreppies the Lands' End catalog. Everybody pays a high price for success, except Eliot, who pays for his failures. To compare The Class with The Group, Mary...
...Fortunately, some Harvard graduates learned how to write for grownups. With unintended irony, Segal includes a patch of verse by John Updike (class of '54) that says more about those years in five lines than the novel does in nearly 600 pages...