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...father is such a powerful character (remember Robert Morley in the movie?) that he runs away with Shaw's message a couple of times, and there are also a few great setpieces, notably the almost-conversion of Bill Walker. As a curtain-raiser, there's Icarus' Mother, by Sam Shepard who's a more or less experimental playwright, and the director is Robert Chapman, professor of English and director of the Loeb. Wot prawce selvytion naow? 7:30 at the Loeb Ex, where things are free...
...Paula Shepard and Myra Durkin singing vocal duets, accompanied by Susan Youens. Works of Monteverdi, Faure, Schumann, Rossini, Brahms. Free. Sunday, April...
...Shepard, Putney and Cox is a high Wasp law firm, dominated, in an odd way, by Beeky Ehninger, a wealthy, well-connected robber baron descendant. Twenty-five years before, Beeky Ehninger had saved the firm by reorganizing it, and now it is facing a similar crisis. In the trauma of merging the law firm with an even bigger and more profitable factory. Auchincloss reveals the personalities of the various partners, associates, and wives. They come across as a pretty average group of people; people who may work a little harder, suffer from a few more neuroses and have a little...
...intentionally minor. This includes Beekman ("Beeky") Ehninger, whose amiably flaccid presence is spread thinly but creamily throughout the book. At 56, Beeky is more legal lap dog than beagle. By his own admission, he cares more about the firm than he does about the law. His main contribution to Shepard, Putney & Cox was to have saved the firm in 1946 by retiring the aging, respected founder and then pirating two brilliant school chums from a rival firm. Backed by a good name and private fortune, Beeky earns his keep by representing rich members of his family. But as death...
...ribald triple divorcee, an exploded sex bomb 15 years older than her husband. A menopausal female member of the firm demonstrates maternal ambitions by deviously trying to get a young lawyer to marry her daughter. Another woman solicitor, young and brilliant, undergoes great turmoil when she leaves Shepard, Putney, etc., where her husband is also a lawyer, in order to head for Washington and a dedicated life in public service practice...