![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Moreover Papa is secretary of Baker's Union Local 27, which takes the family on a picnic that's another yeasty slice of life. For the first time, too, the date of the story, 1939 onwards, is stipulated, and carries the weight of world events: in an inspired sequence Mary meticulously plots Hitler's kidnapping to please his chief critic, college sister Frances, who'd have him do something useful for mankind (the only hitch-"nobody drives") and increasingly Papa worries about Cousin Lebel, caught in France. Sachs seems to be extending her series inward rather than onward: if the addition of Mary, master tinker, family failure, is indicative, then the table-turning on Peter and Veronica was no isolated tour de force-in the eyes of Mary's admiring family, and in his admiration of Marv, Peter takes on still a different aspect. There are interesting developments in the Bronx bailiwick of Laura and Amy, Peter and Veronica. ![]()
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