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...principal character of the new novel. Rob Wyatt, a 32-year-old lawyer, is not even sure that he wants to hear his own monologues. He sees himself as a philosophical bigamist wedded to two perspectives: "Robert the Serious, a believer; also Rob the Ironic, jokester and cynic." The storm rearranges the rhetoric, leaving Rob the Observer, who drops out of his law firm to live at the beach with his dog Speedo...
...Wyatt has a writer's sensibility, but Humphreys was wise to make him a lawyer. The profession symbolizes convention, respectability and decorum. Were her protagonist a writer, expectedly musing at the beach, no one would bother with him. There would be no lovely Louise, former girlfriend and wife of his ex-partner, trying to mother him back to responsibility and solvency. There would be no Billie, the child-woman who, like the dog trainer in Anne Tyler's The Accidental Tourist, teaches new tricks...
Rudenstine is the author of Sidney's Poetic Development, published in 1967, and an editor of English Poetic Satire: Wyatt to Byron, published...
...Princeton (Nelson, Wyatt, Bush, Cornelius), 3:29.74; 2. Harvard (Hutchinson, Alonso, Romas, Kelley), 3:30.90; 3. Harvard...
...reached a dangerously high 52, which means that fewer young blacks are entering the ministry. Thanks to the civil rights movement, the ministry is no longer the sole redoubt of blacks with leadership aspirations. "We never had black mayors before the last 30 years," remarks Harlem Baptist Pastor Wyatt Tee Walker...