Word: accounts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When trying to explain the rationale behind the bureaucracy to a perplexed student, Gibson sometimes just gives up. "I reach the point when all I can say is, 'that's the way it is,' I can't account...
...though he shares the master's taste for drollery and erudition. Like Nabokov, he is also something of an outsider. Born in Massachusetts, Theroux has lived abroad most of his adult life. His present home is London. Picture Palace is his tenth novel; The Great Railway Bazaar, an account of the author's international train travels, was a bestseller in 1975, and his reviews and critieism appear with regularity in the U.S. and England...
...Baby in the Bottle is not merely the definitive account of this celebrated case. It is a thoughtful examination of the complexities and contradictions that cannot be argued or litigated away. As Nolen explains, Edelin was never on trial for performing the operation itself. The abortion, performed during the "open season" after the U.S. Supreme Court's 1973 decision striking down old statutes and before the Massachusetts legislature's adoption of new laws in 1974, was demonstrably legal. Edelin was accused of causing death. Testimony before the grand jury that handed up the indictment, and during the trial...
...title of Higher Educationwill undoubtedly mislead many readers. The book is not an account of Pusey's years as college president. Despite the addendum, "A Personal Report," his writing remains determinedly impersonal. Neither a sense of Pusey's personality nor of his role at Lawrence or Harvard ever emerges--the first person singular intrudes less than half a dozen times in the course of the book. Harvard is often cited but only as a model for certain national trends in education and a convenient source for statistics...
...most interesting section of the book will be the chapter dealing with the conflicts in education. As a college president during the Red-hunting years whose opposition to McCarthy gained him national prominence, and as one whose career eventually foundered on the Harvard Strike of 1969 Pusey's account of these years possess an intrinstic interest, less for what he actually says than for what we know of his role. Here again Pusey provides a general overview of the developments that took place, but for the first time a note of personal passion and conviction appears. The attitude of moral...