Word: canaan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...semi-ex-wife" Violet, who has resumed life with her first husband, a functioning dipso poet named Skippy Mountjoy. Albert drops by to walk their dachshund every day. His girlfriend is a youthful, frantically athletic woman whom he calls the Human Dynamo. She telephones lim at night from New Canaan, Conn., to wonder whether the vanity plates on her new BMW should say YOGURT or SUNDAE or MUFFIN. Stooped by his literacy and sorrow, Albert must listen to the Dynamo complain: "You don't play tennis, you don't snow-ski, you don't water-ski . . . Albert...
Rogin has arranged his novel as a dis orderly meditation wandering over six years of Albert's life. Tragedy (his step son's death by drowning) blows by with a sort of offhanded inevitability. The Dynamo moves from New Canaan to Fair Haven. But the action is entirely within the well-furnished brain of antic and sorrowing Albert. One day he tells his psychiatrist: "You know, Tolstoy said that playing the accordion diverts men from realizing the falsity of their goals." Replies Dr. Nederlander: "You want me to turn on the Yankee game...
...Mugabe's apparent choice for the presidency is the Rev. Canaan Banana, 44, an eccentric Methodist minister and ZANU militant best known for his adaptation of the Lord's Prayer to the goals of black nationalism: "Teach us to demand our share of the gold. Forgive us our docility...