Word: creator
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Which seems fitting. Smiley's creator, John le Carré, 45, is the premier spy novelist of his time. Perhaps of all time. In part, of course, Le Carré's success is due to subject matter. Espionage is an immemorial tradition. In Sparta, undercover agents formed the Krypteia?the Secret Force. Two thousand years later the Krypteia remains forceful, but not quite as secret. Scarcely a month passes without some well-broadcast defection from Eastern Europe; hardly a week goes by without some new charge about intelligence excesses in the West. In the post-Watergate epoch, almost any revelation seems credible...
...sight, Monsignors, but in their nostrils." Ricardo, the mercenary Mexican pilot: " 'How it happened,' he said. 'Listen, I tell you how it happened.' And then I'll kill you, said his eyes." Smaller roles are no less memorable: "My minor characters are always getting out of scale," confesses their creator. "I keep promising them a treat in the next book if they'll just keep quiet...
...Since 1958, when the smaller twelves* replaced the giant J-boats of the '30s, no foreign challenger has won more than one race. But Australia is a virtual twin of Courageous-co-designed by Dutch-born Johan Valentijn who apprenticed under famed US 12-Meter Designer Olin Stephens, creator of Courageous. The low-slung challenger, which trounced rivals from France and Sweden to get a crack at Courageous, may well nearly match her in hull speed, and has a highly competent skipper in the respected Noel Robins...
Soap aspires to be a network Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, and one only wishes that it were. Susan Harris, Soap's creator, producer and writer, centers the action on two related Connecticut families, the rich Tates and working-class Campbells, whose flaky members collectively include philandering and impotent husbands, bored and batty housewives, nymphomaniac children, a senile grandfather-and so on. Most of these types have counterparts in Mary Hartman's Fernwood, Ohio, but Soap's characters are flimsy replicas of the originals...
...frail back is an Amsterdam police commissioner, or commissaris. He wears waistcoats and a watch chain; he has rheumatism, unfailing gaiety and humor, but no name. The Japanese Corpse is the fifth mystery he has appeared in, and he gives every promise of providing an annuity for his creator...