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White would have achieved eminence in any case, but the path he took ambled through a series of happy circumstances. The sixth child of a well-to-do piano manufacturer, he grew up in Mount Vernon, a tree-lined suburb of New York City. He went to Cornell, where he gladly surrendered his given names, Elwyn Brooks, for the moniker Andy (after Andrew D. White, the university's first president). After graduation, White held jobs in journalism and advertising without finding an employer who could make good use of his whimsical temperament and lapidary prose...
...where Joshua Then and Now comes in. Richler's Joshua is the fact-based story of a poor Jewish writer growing up in Montreal who, by pluck and a marriage above his station, rises to most-envied-status to live among wealthy WASPs in the city's posh suburb of Westmount...
...refusals do you know that Judith Singer (Susan Sarandon) is not only a likable woman but a good one. She is very nearly the only lady in her Long Island suburb who has resisted the oleaginous charms of Dr. Bruce Fleckstein, a periodontist whose hands tend to roam from his drill and who has a taste for taking pictures of his female patients that reveal more than the condition of their root canals. Judith even has the sweetly articulated moral fiber to resist the more attractive proposals of the nice police detective (Raul Julia) who is investigating Dr. Bruce...
...Executive action should pre-empt Congress's almost certain passage of the sanctions bill and may thus prevent an angry clash between the White House and Capitol Hill over the issue. In South Africa, where racial violence last week spread for the first time this year to a white suburb, the President's action threatens to upset State President P.W. Botha's desperate attempts to contain the country's economic crisis...
...signs last week pointed toward continuing intransigence and spreading violence. One evening a crowd of about 60 mixed-race youths, known in the lexicon of South African racism as colored, made their way from the township of Scottsdene on the eastern fringes of Cape Town to the adjoining white suburb of Kraaifontein. There they roamed through the streets throwing rocks and Molotov cocktails at the well-kept homes before being driven away by white residents who fired at them with pistols and shotguns. Later, police arrested two young men who had been wounded in the ^ shooting. The significance...