Word: segal
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...CLASS, Segal...
...every author knows, people are reading lighter these days. A chapter can't be too short; a character can't be too thin or too rich. It doesn't hurt to have walk-on parts for real celebrities. Erich Segal is an able practitioner of glitz lit. As a classics scholar (he has taught at Harvard, Yale and Princeton), he understands that readers never tire of seeing the proud and the privileged lowered by fate. Love Story, his bittersweet ode to the Ivy League, established him as the preppies' Pindar. The Class is his bid to be their Homer...
...novel follows the lives of five Harvard men from their freshman registration in 1954 to 1983, the year of their 25th reunion. Brooklyn-born Segal is a member of this class of '58, although the closest the book gets to an artist-celebrity is Daniel Rossi, a California kid whose reputation as one of the world's great pianists is established faster than one can say veritas...
...CLASS, Segal...
...OTHER THREE characters behave more predictably that even Segal probably would like, with melodrama dominating. Danny's life much the way respectability comes to define. Andrew's George the made Hungarian, "applies his passion for power and government to his studies which--almost inevitably, it seems--wind up under the auspices of Henry Kissinger 50 People take drugs, marriages crumble children rebel, in these lives must the way they do in non Harvard ones it's just that here they all have class years after their names...