(Vintage, $8.95.) One symptom of mathematical illiteracy is a tendency to believe in what Jung called synchronicity. INNUMERACY: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences, by John Allen Paulos. '' 'Crooked Hearts' is an insightful, nicely turned, amazingly agile piece of work.'' This novel is ''rich and vivid, an intriguingly busy view of the human adventure, the impossible family of man,'' Sharon Sheehe Stark said here in 1987. (Laurel/Dell, $9.95.) For the members of the Warren family of Yuma, Ariz., disappointment is such an expected part of life that they throw parties to celebrate their latest failures.
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A complex modern literary creature, not merely a chivalric hero. The deformed killer with no moral scruples becomes a man with a conscience and capable of deep love and loyalty, both reasons of his success and his undoing. Penman’s detailed historical research permitted her not only to rescue King Richard III’s reputation from what the Tudors’ historians first, then Shakespeare, did of it, but also to tranform the vilified king into a modern romantic hero. Physically, we are presented with a Richard, ‘Deform’d, unfinish’d…’, a twisted hunchback with a shriveled arm, reflecting a profoundly evil character. And, most famously, the disposing of his two child nephews in the Tower of Londonĥ.Not content with all this, Shakespeare also has Richard poisoning his wife in order to marry his niece.Ħ. Contriving the death of his brother ClarenceĤ. In the play, he satisfies his all-consuming ambition by:ġ.Murdering King Henry VI and murdering Edward of LancasterĢ. The list of ‘crimes’ attributed to Richard III by William Shakespeare is long.
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