Word: authority
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...middle-aged children are involved -- especially when there are unmarried daughters." Perhaps a few readers could stop right there, unmoved by the promise of a comedy of manners with undercurrents of family squabbling and greed, set forth with whimsical decorum. But not those familiar with the works of the author who wrote these 25 introductory words. Peter Taylor, 69, has acquired over four decades a formidable reputation and a small but fanatical following among those who care about American short fiction. For many, such Taylor stories as In the Miro District and The Old Forest have come to exemplify...
...Summons to Memphis lives up to its introduction and its author's renown. The story of grown children locked in polite, civil warfare with a tyrannical father is genuinely funny. And the setting offers a leisurely look at the geography that has emerged patchwork from Taylor's stories: the Upper South, which can be described as a swath of territory and customs running west from Richmond to St. Louis, with the emphasis on Tennessee. But Taylor has done more than obey all the rules he has imposed on himself, now and in the past. He satisfies surface expectations...
...ever been.' " Taylor has always been able to portray the dignity in his characters, particularly when they are in the act of making fools of themselves. It may be ludicrous for a grown man still to mourn a childhood move from one Tennessee city to another, but the author's art evokes sympathy along with laughter...
Bonanno, 82, seems to have had second thoughts about what he triggered. The aged boss has left his Arizona retirement mansion to serve a contempt-of-court sentence in a Springfield, Mo., federal prison rather than give testimony in the Commission trial. The mobster turned author, says one investigator, "is hearing footsteps...
Congressman Duncan Hunter, a California Republican and author of the military provision, argues that the Pentagon has exaggerated the dimensions of the interdiction effort. "If we can't intercept a couple of Cessnas per hour," says Hunter, "we better forget about SDI." A Senate version drafted late last week calls on the military to give support but leaves its role to the option of the Administration. Majority Leader Robert Dole predicted the Senate would act within a week or so, giving conferees from both chambers time to iron out differences on military deployments, spending levels and other issues...