Word: strause
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Farrar Straus & Giroux; 195 pages...
Couples who live together before marriage may be the most violent of all. In a new study, Professors Jan Stets and Murray Straus of the University of New Hampshire found that cohabiting couples show higher levels of aggression than either daters or married people. One reason, suggests Stets, is that such couples "may be more likely to be isolated from relatives. When violence occurs in such a relationship, it's less likely to be communicated to people who might intervene." Another factor may be that live-in arrangements, which are still not the norm, put added pressures on the couple...
...Garcia, who wrote the story, the cover image could not have been more appropriate. "Olmos is a symbol of Hispanic Americans' newfound self-assurance," says Garcia, an East Los Angeles native and author of a novel set in the barrio (Skin Deep, to be published this fall by Farrar, Straus & Giroux). "Because the muralists are part of the Hispanic cultural movement, the medium really is part of the message...
...Farrar, Straus & Giroux...
...DEATH OF METHUSELAH AND OTHER STORIES by Isaac Bashevis Singer (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $17.95). At 83, the Yiddish yarn spinner shows undiminished power to capture the peculiar din of human commerce...