Word: sons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...selling, touching novels that appeared a few years ago. Stunningly beautiful Meryl Streep plays Joanna Kramer, who walks out on a torturous eight-year marriage to her ad-man workaholic husband Ted (Dustin Hoffman) and her seven-year-old munchkin (Justin Henry). The divorce leaves Ted to mother his son, and for months he fails dismally; but after they establish poignant love, Joanna reappears and wants Billy back...
Jailbird, By Kurt Vonnegut (Delacorte/Seymour Lawrence, $9.95): At last, Vonnegut captures the essence of the Harvard Experience: Mid-Western chauffeur's son is packed off to Harvard by a stammering millionaire. He promptly becomes a Communist, serves time in the Roosevelt and Nixon camps, then lands in jail as a Watergate henchman. Praised as the best of Vonnegut's recent works...
...Duke of Deception. Memories of My Father. By Geoffrey Wolff. (Random House, $12.95): His Pa is no Father Christmas. Wolff's father, Duke, is a con artist, a chronic debtor, a wanderer with illusions of grandeur, and an irresponsible parent to boot. A man only a son could love. Wolff's compassion is inspiring, though you may find his object of affection is less than deserving...
MARRIED. William Welsh Graham, 31, adjunct professor of law at U.C.L.A. and son of Washington Post Co. Chairman Katharine Graham; and Caroline Gushing, fortyish gossip columnist for the Los Angeles Herald Examiner and onetime companion of David Frost; in Beverly Hills, Calif.; he for the first time, she for the third...
DIED. Richard Rovere, 64, astute political reporter and author who for 30 years wrote the Washington Letter for The New Yorker; of emphysema; in Poughkeepsie, N. Y. The New Jersey-born son of an electrical engineer, Rovere graduated from Columbia and worked as an editor at the Nation before joining The New Yorker in 1944. A liberal who had once flirted with Communism, Rovere was noted for his fairness, his objectivity and his ability to place politics in perspective...