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...current, barely concealed antagonism between President Nixon and Vice President Agnew is a reminder that the nation's top two officials seldom get along. That is not the way it was supposed to be. The founding fathers not only expected them to work closely in tandem, they worried about it. During the debates at the Constitutional Convention, Elbridge Gerry, who would become Vice President in 1813, complained: "The close intimacy that must subsist between the President and Vice President makes the relationship absolutely improper." To which Gouverneur Morris replied: "The Vice President then will be the first heir apparent...
...Oates is seldom mentioned in the list of activist women writers, but one of her favorite themes is how women fall apart through marriage and dependence on a man. Some are destroyed, like Dr. Pedersen's alcoholic wife in Wonderland. Others-like Loretta in them-survive and grow tougher. Elena leaves her furniture and furs to take responsiblity for her own life. But on the book's last page she fecklessly returns to Morrissey, just as he seems to have got clear of their disastrous affair and adjusted himself to his marriage. Is she a temptress, a wanton...
This Breslin seldom comes out. The fast-talk New Yorker conceals it assiduously. But it is there, and it explains the curious compassion that runs through Breslin's work. He's a tough guy, he writes strong, crude, simple prose. He likes it that way. But underneath....well.... Jimmy Breslin is a helluva firetruck ride. And it's worth hanging on to see what's under the hood...
...novelist finds himself bothering with politics, and tries to answer his children's ritualistic questions: "Where are you off to again? What do you do when you get there?" Grass's answer is a sort of bedtime story on politics, featuring as hero the snail: "It seldom wins, and then by the skin of its teeth. It crawls, it goes into hiding but keeps on, putting down its quickly drying track on the historical landscape. Having lived through the schizophrenia of the 20th century-history as fanaticism and history as paralysis-Grass sees no choice but to endorse...
Marjorie Merriweather Post lived as queens once were wont to do and now seldom can afford. As heiress to a breakfast-cereal fortune and founder of the General Foods empire, Mrs.Post reigned for most of her years as the grande dame of American high society and regal mistress of a life-style evocative of the lost opulence of Victorian empires. Last week, at her Georgian estate in Washington, D.C., Marjorie Post died quietly of a heart attack at age 86, and with her death a gilt-edged volume of American history came...