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Old San Francisco, long gaseous with self-regard (self-esteem is for Oakland), suffered a grievous deflating April 13 when Bank of America--banker to entrepreneurs and immigrants; builder of new industries; capitalizer of the California Dream; financier, indeed, gallant financier of the Golden Gate Bridge--announced its merger with NationsBank to form BankAmerica and its plans to move bank headquarters from San Francisco to Charlotte, N.C.
The designs of the war years had been stamped with a certain gallant jauntiness and comic quirkiness, expressed in restricted amounts of fabric.
This last gift of observation, Gallant explains in the introduction to her huge new Collected Stories , dates back to a bifurcated childhood:
By Gallant's own admission in the introduction, she composes with an eye to craft, not the deeper heart of a story.
Often, Gallant keeps the plot to a minimum, merely visiting her characters several times over a span of years.