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...last time a new 40 was named, in 1976, postmodernism was just revealing its jolly don's face to the world. The newly anointed 40 (54 men and women, in fact, eight of whom are 40 or older) tend strikingly in a different direction: stripped-down, scrupulous, refined but seldom fancy, unafraid of ornament but almost never giddy. There is an unabashedness about construction and materials, but this lightly worn constructivism is a matter of instinct, not doctrine. Much of the new generation's architecture recalls the best buildings of the 1910s and '20s, buildings on the cusp between...
...important advantage: he paid the bills. He wrote checks to suppliers and subcontractors as soon as work was completed, without forcing them to wait for payment approvals from the city. Though he did not do it frequently, he was free to pay overtime to meet his deadline, an incentive seldom allowed in city contracts...
People like this seldom make it into print nowadays unless they are lumped in with the latest unemployment figures or, even worse, written up in the police blotters of local papers. Dubus may have decided that such wasted lives are America's fault; he may even be right. But the case made by his fiction is far more complex and intriguing. In Rose, a nameless middle-age narrator starts chatting casually about a fellow habitue of Timmy's, a neighborhood bar in a town, once again in Massachusetts, on the Merrimack River. Her name is Rose; she is disheveled, disreputable...
...true that Black males commit a disproportionately large number of petty thefts in downtown and inner-city neighborhoods, especially against the often seedy jewelry stores that dot these areas. But what is more important and seldom cited is that the overwhelming majority of Blacks are neither thieves nor robbers nor members of economic groups which depend upon crime...
...plan, which was first submitted to the group last week by a committee headed by Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57, would eliminate the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities (CRR)--a seldom-used body that some students say can quash legitimate political protest...