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Richard Dooling is impartially derisive in his caustic second novel, White Man's Grave (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 386 pages; $22). He chucks a custard pie at every face that shows itself. There's Randall Killigan, an Indianapolis attorney who glories in the dismemberment allowed by bankruptcy law: the wrenching of great financial chunks from the carcasses of not-quite-dead companies. And there's young Boone Westfall, newly employed to reject legitimate claims at his father's sleazy insurance company. "Why do you think they call it work?" Dad asks, when Boone objects that cheating widows and orphans is tedious...
...first seem peculiar that Kirstein's autobiography, Mosaic (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 270 pages; $25), concludes just prior to his successful approach to Balanchine. But he has written other books (Portrait of Mr. B, Thirty Years: The New York City Ballet) about their long collaboration. This time the author, 87, tries to recapture the influences and experiences that led him to Balanchine in the first place...
...meeting space for student groups in Canaday A through E. The Independent, a Weekly newspaper, will move from its traditional home in the basement of Canaday G to a new office in the basement of Canaday A. In its place, the Yard facilities and maintenance staff will move from Straus Hall to the basements of Canaday...
...kept as a safety net. If for some reason members of the Class of 1998 or 1999 are greeted with tents rather than dorm rooms, Harvard would probably draw national ridicule. Harvard has to get this summer's renovations done, as well as those slated for next summer--Massachusetts, Straus and Wigglesworth Halls...
Over the whole range of literature, only erotica functions differently. If it works, sexual arousal is real, not imaginary. And if it doesn't work? The most recent example is Harold Brodkey's novel Profane Friendship (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 387 pages). The author tells of a long, intensely erotic affair between the narrator, an American novelist named Nino, and an Italian named Onni. The names are anagrams of each other -- different stirrings of the same ingredients, including the same...