Word: cruz
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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GORKY PARK by Martin Cruz Smith; Random House; 365 pages...
Novelists of intrigue like to base their works on those who, in T.S. Eliot's phrase, are "much possessed by death/ And [see] the skull beneath the skin." Martin Cruz Smith reverses the process. His hero takes a skull and, with the aid of an ethnologist, builds a face around it, the way Peking man was constructed from shards of bone. A woman's identity rises from the remains, and her murderer is traced. Here Smith wrings another change: his hero is an open-faced Soviet investigator, and his villain is a voracious capitalist, the American John Osborne...
There is no rule for describing those who frequent the High Sierra. They are college students from Santa Cruz or New York or Texas. They are doctors, Christian Scientists, and health food freaks. They are engineers turned backpackers and backpackers turned engineers. They are poets who write limericks and bums who cannot read...
...diseases as hemophilia and sickle-cell anemia, but to "improve" the species itself. There may be perils in disturbing a microbial balance that has been billions of years in the making with strange, new man-made bugs. Asks Biologist Robert Sinsheimer, chancellor of the University of California at Santa Cruz: "Do we really wish to replace the fateful but impartial workings of chance with the purposeful self-interested workings of human will?" Even more dourly. Biochemist Erwin Chargaff notes: "If you can modify a cell, it's only a short step to modifying a mouse, and if you can modify...
...world-reknowned writer, has been a diplomat, and is now a Fellow at Dartmouth College. For many people, Carlos Fuentes serves as a spokeman for Mexico--the country he writes his experimental and political works about. His novels such as Terra Nostra, The Death of Artemio Cruz. Where the Air is Clear, Hydrahead, and the recently translated collection of short stories. Burnt Water, have all treated the themes of Mexico's 1910 revolution, class society and ancient past, employing the symbolism and mythology of Mexico's revolution and indigenous people. Fuentes has been venerated for his prolific and original books...