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...bland executionproduces a book that is curiously unremarkable,even memorably forgettable.“The Commoner” tells the story ofEmpress Haruko, Schwartz’s fictionalizedvision of Empress Michiko. The basicplot is one that’s been told over andover in other forms: exceptional youngwoman confronts the world, falters atfirst, but eventually finds herself. In thisversion, Haruko is a privileged but normalgirl growing up in Tokyo duringWorld War II. (As Schwartz writes withcharacteristic limpness, “One might saythat my childhood insularity was a formof hereditary protection in whose shade,like a pale, delicate mushroom...

Author: By Jillian J. Goodman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 'Commoner' Just Common | 3/13/2008 | See Source »

...overseer," she wrote in her statement,"I hope to ask questions that aren't asked everyday, take an interest in areas of the Universitythat aren't interesting to everyone else, andperhaps bring a different kind of voice as a youngwoman in the entertainment industry...

Author: By Todd F. Braunstein, | Title: Newest Overseers Discuss Goals | 6/30/1995 | See Source »

...because of the stereotypes," said a youngwoman from Newbury College, who would onlyidentify herself as Desiree G. But, she said,"It's better to be safe than sorry...

Author: By Douglas M. Pravda, | Title: Police Bar Hundreds From Concert | 2/25/1995 | See Source »

...book is made up of six stories, four of them long, none of them dull, all as needle-toothed and portentous as so many black cats. Among them they put together the tortuous, semiautobiographical figure of Margaret Sargent, a youngwoman-about-Manhattan, from the callow moment in which she breaks her first marriage to the hour when, twisting on a psychoanalyst's sofa like an unable phoenix in hot ashes, she discovers in her childhood the source of her emptiness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: From the Bottom of the Kennel | 6/1/1942 | See Source »

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