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Those who read Harper's because of Kinsley will probably throw up their hands in disgust and join great Harper's writers like Wilfrid Sheed and David Owen in jumping ship. But the new Harper's is not hopeless or craven, just different. It's still witty and informative, and the counterman at Nini's Corner reports that it's selling very well. At the very least it deserves a chance to prove itself...
...them. Argues Body Builder Rachel McLish: "You have a simple choice of what to put on your bones: fat or muscle. Working out is a positive addiction." It may also be the means to that elusive, seductive goal: a prolonged, vital youth. "The fitness business," suggests Novelist-Critic Wilfrid Sheed, "is about sex and immortality. By toning up the system you can prolong youth, just about finesse middle age and then, when the time comes, go straight into senility...
NONFICTION: After the Fact: The Art of Historical Detection, James Davidson and Mark Lytle/ Clare Boothe Luce, Wilfrid Sheed/ How to Make War, James F. Dunnigan/ The Imperial Rockefeller, Joseph E. Persico/ Mrs. Harris: The Death of the Scarsdale Diet Doctor, Diana Trilling/ Scenes of Childhood, Sylvia Townsend Warner
NONFICTION: After the Fact: The Art of Historical Detection, James Davidson and Mark Lytle∙Clare Boothe Luce, Wilfrid Sheed∙How to Make War, James F. Dunnigan The Imperial Rockefeller, Joseph E. Peisico∙Mrs. Harris: The Death of the Scarsdale Diet Doctor, Diana Trilling∙Scenes of Childhood, Sylvia Townsend Warner
...will. Sheed is one of the wittiest novelists, capable of turning out presumptive romans à clef like Office Politics (about a certain liberal magazine or magazines) and Max Jamison (about a certain theater critic or critics). In the new book he mixes the storyteller's phrase with the historian's acuity: "The '20s did not entirely take place in the '20s"; President Ford is "like a relative you have to visit now and then, with nothing much to report. You know, he's still working at Prudential or Tool & Dye"; William F. Buckley...