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...mandatory retirement law was in effect], but I would not have kept on teaching. The dean set up a nice situation...he built us a new building where we have own nook, our own secretaries and a place we can keep our books and can give a lecture," says Straus Professor of Business of History Emeritus Alfred D. Chandler Jr. "He did that very much on purpose--before we had a place known, as death row where you shared an office with three or so others after you retired...
Prairie Reunion by Barbara J. Scot (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 230 pages; $21) is a bittersweet homecoming story tracing the author's return in middle age to the puritannical farming community where she grew up. In Scotch Grove, Iowa, she tries to piece together the puzzle of her mother's loving stoicism in the face of her father's humiliating desertion and subsequent suicide. Structured as a patchwork of conversations, childhood recollections and lyrical encounters with the land, Scot's quietly earnest quest yields her valuable understanding of her mother's reticence and a deeper appreciation of the mysteries of family...
...elections for treasurer had yet to take place, the meeting was moved to the Straus common room...
...notion of placing such a figure at the center of a murder story in the Paris of 1892 must have seemed both absurd and superb when writer Eric Zencey hatched it, and in his novel Panama (Farrar Straus Giroux; 375 pages; $24), that's exactly the way it turns out. Zencey, a professor of history at Goddard College in Vermont, presents an Adams pastiche that might have been recognizable to the original: a small, acute, conflicted man who emits pedantry when made nervous. He cannot praise except in negatives: on the rococo facade of the Paris Opera House "the winged...
...Straus' exterior was fixed several yearsago, so work is only being done inside thebuilding...