Word: authorly
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...whites, the central issue is whether Simpson is a murderer, while to blacks it is whether the process that brought him to trial was fatally contaminated by racial bias. Simpson is still no hero to most blacks, but he has become an indelible symbol of their mistreatment by white authority. "We always reach out to another black person we perceive as being mistreated by whites because it has happened to so many of us," says Darlene Powell Hopson, a black clinical psychologist. Says political scientist Andrew Hacker, author of Two Nations: Black and White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal: "I hear...
...Angeles Times shows that priests and sisters are comparably satisfied. Skeptics might argue that Catholics who were not content have left the church, thus eluding the pollsters. But the ranks of those defectors have not been growing in recent years. Father Andrew M. Greeley is popularly known as the author of steamy best-selling novels, but he is also a sociologist who has spent more than 30 years analyzing his fellow American Catholics. He finds "practically no increase in those born Catholic who no longer identify as Catholic--the defection rate." How does Greeley account for this phenomenon? "They like...
...endearing Tennessee Williams (who, during lunch with Senator John Kennedy in Palm Beach, Florida, tells Vidal that their host has a great butt), and a rather mawkish Jack Kerouac, with whom Vidal has a brief affair. (No man is a hero to his Vidal--and every man, the author insinuates, harbors homoeroticism within...
Palimpsest is enjoyable as a kind of highbrow gossip column (the famous names could be in boldface), but it lacks the analytical substance that one has come to expect from its author. In a lovely passage, Vidal says he learned from his grandfather ''the ability to detect the false notes in those arias that our shepherds lull their sheep with"--and in fact his story sparkles when he deftly exposes the hypocrisies of Hollywood and Washington. As a writer he is at his best as an uncompromising critic, and at one point turns his sensibility on himself with sharp-eyed...
This messy business is never fully explained, but the commotion gives author Zencey room for a fond sketch portrait of a man he clearly admires. Adams bustles about crime scenes pretending to courage he doesn't really feel, an animated footnote annotating in Greek and Latin. He marvels at fingerprinting, then just coming into use in Paris, and at "instantaneous" communication by pneumatic tubes. For a time he suspects that one of the villains is his friend John Hay, later to be a U.S. Secretary of State. A gendarme confronts him at an awkward moment: "Oh, dear, Monsieur Adams. This...