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Newland is the hero of Edith Wharton's 1920 novel The Age of Innocence, and in his emotional corset he may seem a supporting player in life's melodrama, as far from the noisy concerns of our day as Polonius. The drawing-room virtues of reticence and gentility are considered dead in the Age of Prurience. Yet they still govern our lives whenever we check an impulse to explode in love or anger -- when we don't shout at a reckless motorist, or we keep quiet when we mean to proclaim our ardor. If Richard Kimble is a hero...
McArthur applied and was admitted to the Stanford, Wharton, MIT and Harvard business schools. He says he ruled out Stanford because he had grown up on the West Coast and felt it was time to explore a new place, and he ruled out Wharton because no one in British Columbia had heard...
Most public defenders think not. In Memphis, lawyers lament the plead-'em- and-speed-'em-through pace. "It reminds me of the old country song we have here in Tennessee: 'We're not making love, we're just keeping score,' " says chief public defender AC Wharton. Across the country, lawyers watch with frustration as the bulk of criminal-justice funds goes to police protection, prisons and prosecutors, leaving just 2.3% for public defense services. "We aren't being given the same weapons," says Mary Broderick of the National Legal Aid and Defender Association. "It's like trying to deal with...
With an M.D. from Yale and an M.B.A. from Wharton, Jacobs is a bona fide member of the Establishment. At the same time, his heritage has given him an outsider's perspective. Born in Brooklyn, New York, Jacobs spent part of his youth on Mohawk reservations upstate and in Canada, where "I was criticized by relatives and friends for being too educated." But he also lived in Anglo communities in New York and New Jersey, where "I was often the darkest- skinned child in my class...
...assumption in France, though, is that while a designer makes daytime clothing, his real arena is the evening. In a very successful show, Christian Lacroix produced dazzling ball gowns, grand, inventive yet harmonious. Erik Mortensen, of Jean-Louis Scherrer, had a couple of extravaganzas worthy of an Edith Wharton parvenu. Compared with these flights into fairyland, the Balmain show is almost severe. De la Renta's gowns show the most exquisite materials and embroidery but are presented, as it were, in translation -- to a modern idiom. The last-minute bolts of georgette appear in a series of elegant sheaths, delicately...