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INKLINGS by Geoffrey Wolff...
...writing a novel about a book reviewer who wants to write a novel, Author Geoffrey Wolff, 40, has certainly staked out the turf he knows best. In addition to two earlier novels and a literary biography, Wolff has reviewed books for a raft of publications, including the Washington Post, Newsweek and New Times. What he does not know about the various satrapies of New York publishing is not worth hearing. So, unfortunately, is some of what he does know...
Union officials, however, charge that the university's financial position is not as bad as it has been made out to be. In a paper prepared for Local 35, Richard D. Wolff, associate professor of economics at the University of Massachuetts, states that last year's Yale deficit resulted largely from temporary expenses, such as increased fuel costs during last year's unusually cold winter. In addition, Wolff writes that the Yale Corporation created much of Yale's current financial problem itself last January, when it decided to freeze the amount of the school's endowment the administration can devote...
YALE OFFICIALS countered Wolff's report with a stream of statements and handouts supporting the university's positions, and over the weeks the dispute has bogged down into a stalemate over the facts and figures of each side's arguments. Meanwhile, the strikers are living on a $30-a-week union picketers' allowance, as white collar workers man the facilities that are still open. The university's power plants and the freshman commons dining hall remain in use, but the residential college dining halls and the custodial service have been shut down since the strike began. The university is giving...
...Wolff, who teaches at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, recently published her biography of Edith Wharton, and Lane, a fellow of the Radcliffe Institute, has written a study of Mary Beard, the American historian...