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Before this summer, Bruce didn't erase my misguided shame about coming from the "nation's armpit." But this summer was different, no denying...
...College dean. The job will go to another in the line of white males who have held it for time immemorial. This appointment provides observers of the Harvard scene an object lesson in the resilience of the old boys' network. It is not a surprise. It is a shame. Jeffrey R. Toobin '82 Paul A. Engelmayer...
...terribly disappointing to have faith in someone as a role model and have them turn out to be tainted," complained Gladys Roost, 80, a Dodger fan in Los Angeles. Shirley Murphy, 33, a secretary in Baltimore, agreed. "It is a damn shame that these guys can't depend on their talent to see them through," she said. Declared Ralph Bass, 63, a Texas Ranger booster: "Making that kind of money, they ought to set a better example...
Real as these perplexities are, it would be a shame if Fowles' potential audience were put off by them, for A Maggot is also an immensely rich, readable book, full of passages as haunting and provocative as anything in The Magus or The French Lieutenant's Woman...
...becoming common knowledge. As before, Singer's tales of rural life reveal the complexities of so-called simple folk. In A Nest Egg for Paradise, a prosperous and pious Jew named Mendel falls victim, once, to the seductive appeals of his sister-in-law. He tries to hide his shame and suffering from the neighbors, but he brings his anguish to a rabbi in another village. "I've forfeited my share in the world to come," he confesses. The rabbi congratulates Mendel and explains, "The Master of the Universe has plenty of paid servants, but of those who would serve...