Word: authority
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...manuscript for Icelandic Legendary Sagas should reach the editor by early next year, the author says...
...still be told, I vow." The prophet is Queen Elizabeth I, and she is celebrating Sir Francis Drake, His Daring Deeds (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $12.95). So is Roy Gerrard, who imaginatively charts the rise of Britain's supersailor from cabin boy to conqueror of the Spanish Armada. Although the author-illustrator employs rhymed couplets and a suite of exuberant watercolors, he is textbook-true to history, pageantry, royalty and, most important, the man who "took his leave, with sails unfurled,/ to circumnavigate the world...
...HIGH ROAD by Edna O'Brien (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $18.95). The Irish author made her reputation writing about headstrong girls dashing toward the flame of maturity; her tenth novel portrays women who have come out on the other side, badly burned...
...reversal of the old law: he wants users punished. "You can't ban the sale of drugs from one side and give freedom to buy them on the other," he argues. Craxi's hard line has drawn fire from liberals, especially Minister for Special Affairs Rosa Russo Jervolino, chief author of a new antidrug law calling for stiffer sentences for traffickers, more support for police, and better rehabilitation programs. However, her original version let stand the provision allowing "modest" amounts of drugs for personal use. Craxi blocked passage of the bill, and in the process touched a vein of public...
...author considers Schmidt's stats for the 1988 season mediocre, but I find them remarkable. Sixty-two rbi's over 108 games (in which his appearances often lasted only 3-4 innings) is equivalent to 93 rbi's over a full season--all while hitting only .249 with 12 homeruns on a cellar-dwelling team. Those stats make Schmidt, if not consistently good, then a needed clutch hitter on a team which sorely lacked offense...