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This sort of nitpicking, I'm sure, pleases Evans immensely. Now that titles like The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington are suddenly floating around the airwaves, making their way into circles of conversation and, no doubt, appearing in paperback at The Coop, Random House stands to profit. Indeed, the company plans to reissue 10 more novels from the list in the coming year. But is this dose of unabashed consumerism enough to make us want to sneer at the entire project? Not really. The truth is, Americans aren't exactly eating up literary fiction these days. If it takes...
Clay is not wholly anything--he is half Jewish, half Gentile. His WASP grandparents reject him completely, never having forgiven his father for marrying a Jew. He is the odd third of an otherwise perfect Preferential. His two roommates, Booth Tarkington Griggs and Pownall Hamm, are purebred patricians who breeze into the most exclusive club...
...simply because the freight of anger and disgust is so heavy it upsets the novel's balance, the element of Hocus Pocus that is storytelling seems perfunctory. Eugene Debs Hartke is the diarist, a gung-ho U.S. Army officer during the Vietnam War; then a professor of science at Tarkington, a college for dyslectics in New York State; then briefly the warden of a prison for blacks into which the college is transformed; and finally, in the year 2001, the scapegoat defendant after a prison breakout...
...conservative politically and well inclined toward Reagan's politics. Even those who disagree with his policies tend to admire the President's personal style, and doubt that they will readily abandon him. "I don't blame Reaganomics or anything the President has done," says John Ed Tarkington, 36, who raises rice and soybeans on his 1,900-acre farm near Almyra. Ark. "We are at the mercy of the market." Indeed, many farmers still seem willing to give Reagan more time to turn the economy around with his policies...
...first revival of Booth Tarkington's Clarence since it opened with Alfred Lunt in the title role in 1919 is a class-conscious comedy and a delight to behold. The hero, Clarence )Stephen Keep), is a mysterious World War I veteran who applies to the Wheeler family for a job. The Wheelers-stuffy father, silly mother, bratty daughter, son thrown out of Princeton-take him on and find him a paragon of piano tuning, plumbing and wistfully disarming charm. Keep is a perfect stand-in for a young Jimmy Stewart. As Clarence, he woos and wins the governess (Marian...