Word: die
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Recounting his first experience with Goldwater's political style, Kleindienst tells of the Senator's actions during a winter in the midst of the Depression when the sheep that sustained Navajos on an Indian reservation not far from his Winslow, Ariz., home began to die in the cold...
...John Henry is too dramatic a metaphor. People rarely die trying to outrun technology. They usually adapt, moving either up the skills-and-income scale or down it. Perhaps a better metaphor is Virginia Lee Burton's classic children's story of Mike Mulligan and his steam shovel, Mary Anne. Outmoded by diesel models, Mary Anne retires in the cellar she has just dug for the new town hall. She becomes the building's heater. And Mike Mulligan finds gainful employment, though not by mastering diesel technology. He works contentedly alongside Mary Anne, as a janitor...
Hokeyness, though, is a prime ingredient for a successful beach book, and it rears its head in another Grishamesque page turner: Likely to Die (Scribner; 393 pages; $24), a novel about a murdered neurosurgeon written by Manhattan sex-crimes prosecutor Linda Fairstein. Where else will you find the line "In your dreams, Blondie. In your dreams...
...dead children's grandfather and family pastor, Charles Nixon, for filling the minds of his trusting parishioners with rubbish and for distorting Scripture. Nowhere does the Bible say that sick children should be denied proper medical treatment or that it's "God's will" for children to die. "Freedom of religion" doesn't mean condoning murder. How many more children must die before the Faith Tabernacle Congregation is shut down and the pastor defrocked? (The Rev.) SALLY L. CARPENTER Seelyville...
...DIED. ART HANES, 80, die-hard segregationist Southern mayor; in the city he ruled for a single, notorious term, Birmingham, Ala. In 1962 Hanes shut down Birmingham's parks rather than open them to blacks; in 1968 he became James Earl Ray's first lawyer...