Word: cars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years, when he drove downtown to his office on the 29th floor of the First National Bank in Dallas, he parked his car several blocks away to save a 500 parking fee, and carried his lunch in a brown paper...
...before Stroud's third editorial, the Free Press flip-flopped in a different sense. Folksy columnist Judd Arnett revealed on the last page that Henry Ford had told him he favored a gasoline tax-big news in a town suffering the worst slump in car sales since 1958. The afternoon competition, the Detroit News, immediately saw the dynamite in the story, got a statement from Ford, and ran it on Page One, scooping the Free Press. Next day the Free Press tried lamely to recoup with predictable reactions from economists...
Desperate Condition. The source, as usual, was the victim of a traffic accident. Ten-year-old Jennifer Schrikker was killed by a car, and her mother gave permission for the surgeons to use the child's heart. During the transplant-implant operation, which began at midnight and lasted five hours, Taylor was on the heart-lung machine, which maintains the patient's circulation, allowing his own heart to be stopped during the delicate operation. Only then did Barnard discover how desperate his condition had been: "His left ventricle was nothing but a bag of fibrous tissue." Barnard...
What, he asks, is a car? "A car is a rolling sneeze, a slice of selfishness." Train travel, by contrast, can be "the most nearly perfect way of moving from one place to another." In many nations, notably France, Italy, Germany and Japan, there are commodious sleepers, cooked-aboard meals, and the kindly service that has been supplanted in the U.S. by the do-it-yourselfism of Howard Johnson motels and Amtrak sandwich bars. Even the U.S. expense-account ethos has done little to encourage elegance or comfort on the rails...
...narrator of this small first novel is a nameless American Indian. 32 years old, "servant," as he describes himself, "to a memory of death." He already has plenty to remember. His older brother died at 14, crumpled by a car while trying to drive cattle across a Montana highway. After years of "making white men laugh" at local bars, his father failed to come home one night. He was later found frozen "stiff as a slat" in a snowdrift. The narrator thinks that something has died in him as well; he feels "no hatred, no love, no guilt, no conscience...