In the words of Time magazine, Ellen

Goodman has firmly established herself

as "a cool stream of sanity flowing

through a minefield of public and private

quandaries."

Sensible, funny, intelligent--unique

in her ability to connect our personal

lives to public issues--she continues to

write about those things that really mat-

ter to us: our children and our families,

our relationships, and the quality of our

life, now and in the future.

On kids: "1 suppose we make kids the

repository of our highest ideals because

children are powerless. In that way we

can have ideals and ignore them at the

same time." On our truubled times: "There

are people who say It would be nice to be

humane, but we have to be realistic. But

surely it s possible, even in this peak sea-

son of pessimism, to devise new ways to

be both." On work and family: "Our work

and our children aren t worlds that

oppose each other across a great

Despite. We need to choose the con-

junctions that join, rather than divide,

our lives."

In At Large we are treated to Ellen

Goodman s lucid observations on every-

thing from nuclear power reactors to the

stress on the modern woman and the

question of abortion, to the Arabs, the

economic outlook, sex education, and

divorce. Her profiles are superb: Pablo

Picasso ("For ninety-one years, he did