Word: strause
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jean Stein's Edie, essentially a snip-and-paste collage of interviews. Moreover, these new lives are not exclusively devoted to the scholarly examination of papers and letters. "Not long ago, most biographies were compiled by diligent researchers," says Michael Di Capua, editor in chief of Farrar, Straus & Giroux. But diligent was all they were. "Now it's rare for books like that to get published." Instead, the work is being done by artists who have extended their range far beyond the academic. In their debuts, Edmund Morris (The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt) and Judith Thurman (Isak Dinesen...
...Farrar, Straus & Giroux: 210 pages...
...tried not to get so anxious over such a minor point. After, all, isn't this Fair Harvard--where feminist Betty Friedan is a "Fellow" at the IOP, and the Straus Cup competition includes one sport named "Volleyball" and another named "Women's Volleyball" (with fewer points going to the winner of the latter)? Where women trying to study Women's Studies as a Special Concentration are expected to "prove their seriousness" by overcoming obstacles designed to rival the Twelve Labors of Hercules...
...pure villain is on display in Doctor De Soto (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $11.95). William Steig is a septuagenarian whose stories seem to grow younger with every effort. In his newest book, he follows the adventures of an altruistic mouse dentist, Dr. De Soto, who accepts a highly dangerous and extremely toothy patient. The fox, acting timid, tries to outmouse Dr. De Soto. But the rodent soon outfoxes the patient by employing a bit of orthodontia. The heroics should reassure anyone due for a six-month checkup or a set of braces...
Black American folklore is the source of Margot Zemach's Jake and Honeybunch Go to Heaven (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $13.95). Jake, a laborer, lives near a town appropriately called Hard Times. Honeybunch is a mule, with a disposition that belies her name. One evening the pair run into a freight train and wind up on the Glory Road to the Pearly Gates. Zemach's mural-like paintings create a midnight world of green pastures, good food and celestial jazz. After the requisite tantrum, even Honeybunch sees the light: the brilliance of the moon and all the stars that...