Word: desertion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...words got onto the paper. This kind of feeling has afflicted other 20th century writers, and sometimes it leads to contrived situations. Take this one, for example: The Reverend Marshfield suffers from "distraction." As a cure, his bishop orders him to spend a month in the desert, atoning. But this being truly the latter age, ascetism is not what it once was, and Marshfield gets to expiate his sins in fairly comfortable surroundings--a motel, actually. He is forbidden serious "intrapersonal or doctrinal" conversation, non-escapist reading material, and the Word of God as set down in Holy Scriptures (Marshfield...
...born preacher. Marshfield comes to his writing role out there in the desert as an amateur, but with the sensibilities of someone who has been working with words for a long time. It doesn't take him long, telling his own story, to discover the joys of writing fiction...
...frustrated author given his big chance, but they are unnecessary. Marshfield's anomalous faith gives him a depth, and a dignity, that makes the rest extraneous and distracting. The mediocre sermon early in the month is realistically valid, but artistically wrong. As something written to a preacher in a desert motel, it is revealing and effective. But it is mediocre writing nonetheless, and that is not Marshfield's name on the dust jacket...
Kissinger's problem is that Israel is not likely to offer much to Syria before Geneva, particularly since it is more difficult to negotiate territorial adjustment on the Golan Heights than on the broad Sinai desert. Kissinger, who had hoped to keep the Syrians soothed until he could finish Israeli-Egyptian negotiations, got scant help last week from Israeli Premier Yitzhak Rabin. Visiting settlements built on the Golan Heights after the 1967 war, Rabin stressed their security value for Israel and added: "We did not build settlements here in order to evacuate them...
...White House photographer has ever clicked with as much national prominence as Kennerly. Jaunty with his full beard and a racy line, the youngest member of Ford's close staff swings in and out of the Oval Office in his beat-up blue jeans and scuffed desert boots, and joshes the President...