European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 12, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Books i a i i is i first Tim by Karen Bouris con Art press. When losing our virginity said Queen Victoria to tier daughter we must dose our eyes and think of England. Attaching a Little More lyricism to the act the great romantics from Cervantes to Byron saw virgins As roses and their deflowering a poem to passions that would Saddle Lions. Bouris first time was somewhere in Between a although i knew what i was doing it was kind of a just get it Over with experience. I was uninformed about my body. There was alcohol involved. It was significant in that it was the Start of my growth As a woman and my self imagery. But it really was a generic  a so Bouris 25, has written a Book about it. The first time is based upon the sexual initiations of 150 women who responded to interviews and on 1,000 questionnaires mailed  National Cross Section. The Book is More anecdotal than analytical its conclusions rarely straying from personal to statistical. It bashes no males in fact presents some As tender and caring. Even the male majority is tempered by general portrayal As victims of myth machismo movies and locker room pressures. With of course the occasional lout and incestuous relative. For some women Bouris reports their first times were indeed anthems and firecrackers in Celebration of sexual discovery and Romance. The first time Speaks with Georgia homemakers and California prostitutes Jet hears from Early teenagers and septuagenarian it visits lesbians and touches All races and religions. It explores defloration As a conscious Choice wedding night or not the minority who found it romantic the pressures from Church Peers and family a with margin quotes from St. Jerome to Molly Ivins. A Paul Dean los Angeles times fire with fires the new female Power end hew it will change the 21st Century by Naomi Wolf random House. While in a not at All sure that i would have chosen Wolf to Lead my cause that a beside the Point she is doing so. In this timely and often inspiring Book Wolf lets out a rally whoop for women in the United states. We Are at a crucial moment she says a moment in which the Power to transform society is already in our hands. We can either use that Power and begin to accomplish the longstanding goals of feminism a or we can throw it All away. A april Bernard  of Fortune life in the gilded age by Alexis Gregory Rizzoli. This is a Rich Book about Rich people. Not Only does it abound in information about High society from 1879 to 1914 in Europe and through 1929 in America but it is also eminently readable and entertaining. The names of a Century ago Are legendary Astor Vanderbilt Rockefeller Rothschild. Nancy Ross the Washington Post never step running Allard Lowenstern and the struggle to save american Liber Wallsm by William chafe Basic books Harper col Lins. Allard Lowenstein 1929-1981 May be remembered now As a Man who never stopped running for congressional seats in and around new York City and never stopped losing. But in chafes fascinating new political and psychological biography Lowenstein comes to life again As a pied Piper for the Young and idealistic and As a Man who passionately believed in the possibility of reforming the system without tearing it apart. Combining his avidity for Reform with an anticommunism Lowenstein was Able to play a major role in three Liberal crusades of he 1960s and �?T70s the fight against apartheid in South Africa the Battle for civil rights that culminated in the Freedom summer in Mississippi and the Campaign against the United states role in Vietnam that Ted to president Johnson a decision not to run again in 1968. A Christopher Lehmann Haupt not love Ond infamy by Frank Deford Viking. In Japan says Deford in the postscript to his riveting sixth novel the months leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor were a time when a looking Back, Karen Bouris author of the first time. No rational person  the difference Between truth and fiction let alone divine which was  it was a time when Japan and America Tike fraternal twins were irreconcilable opposed and uniter singly alike when Good people in both nations admired and love much about the other when Ultra zealous Jingo its both Here and there lusted for a War they Felt would bring total control Over the Pacific and when Friendship drowned beneath an unstoppable flood of betrayal and ambition. After decades of Eminence As a sportswriter Frank Deford makes this dramatic stylistic departure with expert command creating fascinating characters both private and Public brilliantly evoking Japan and its people during this grim Era when the Best spirits of that nation and ours were overwhelmed by events. Andy Solomon los Angeles times the ditches of Edison county by Ronald Richard Roberts plume. Her name is panic la and she a a bored but hol to Trot Idaho farm wife. His name is Ronald concave and he a a photographer wandering around Edison county taking pictures of ditches. Sound vaguely familiar kind of like the Bridges of Madison county by Robert James Waller Only funnier this paperback is the inevitable parody of Bridges the Energizer of a Book that just keeps going and going and going. Jocelyn Mcclurg Hartford Durant inside Hitler s Greece the experience of occupation 1941-1944 by Mark Makower Yale University press. History a botches can be cruder than history a deliberate cruelties when the German army withdrew from Greece in 1944, after a 3v5-year occupation it had destroyed some 1,200 villages wholly or partly. Thousands of greek civilians had been shot or hanged. Of 70,000 to 80,000 greek jews Only 10,000 or so remained. Perhaps 300,000 greeks had perished from Lack of food most of them during the famine Winter of 1941-42. Yet Makower writes after making these estimates in this new Book and painstakingly weighing High end and Low end claims the germans never meant to be there. Hitler was not interested in taking Greece. The nazis whose racial theology had them descending in some fashion from the hellenes exempted the greeks from the category of a slave Peoples. They admired the ferocity with which they had chased italian troops Back Over the albanian Border and in any Case Germany was turning its attention to Russia and needed no diversions. Admiration or not though Greece had humiliated hitlers ally and something had to be done. 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