Word: condonation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What is it like to work a 36-hour shift? That is precisely how long Dr. Edward Condon, 28, was on virtually continuous duty" recently at New York City's 970-bed Elmhurst Hospital as part of his internship. The log of his prolonged...
...Recent films include Executive Action and The Conversation and novels like Richard Condon's Winter Kills and Frederick Forsyth's The Dogs...
...should be enough to say that Winter Kills is a gothic farce about the assassination in the early 1960s of U.S. President Tim Keegan. Condon unaccountably gives Keegan a younger half brother named Nick Thirkield who uncovers the plot afterward, and although the shooting occurs in Philadelphia, not Dallas, President Keegan travels to Berlin during the blockade and tells cheering crowds, "Ich bin ein Berliner...
...course, this is in grossly bad taste, although cynicism prompts the additional observation that taste might not matter if the book were funny. It is not. It is paranoid. Condon clearly wrote the novel to take his suspicions for a stroll, and what he suspects is that the very rich are in conspiratorial control of the country. It turns out that Keegan's billionaire father, in the Old Joe Kennedy slot, arranged with fellow oligarchs to kill his son because President Tim was showing signs of believing his own guff about helping the blacks and the poor...
...Condon has unraveled. The world's villainy simply does not work so simply. To pretend that it does is mindless mischief...