Word: edwin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...large hoard of tinned food; she mysteriously refers to an operation she had several years previously, little knowing that her mastectomy has become common knowledge. The two women are the first to leave, and some weeks later they are invited for a reunion luncheon by Norman and Edwin, their former officemates...
Into this quiet, ordinary situation Pym works the subtlest of nuances, endowing her characters with quiet dignity and endearing quirks. Norman is sarcastic, but he always stops just short of abrasion. Edwin, a large, docile widower, is so bland as to be almost invisible; he fills his mouth with candies and his hours with a ceaseless round of churchgoing...
...than you might think--would not. They take no chances, you see. They report en masse only when the sure thing is at hand. They do not begin to circle until the footsteps stagger and the body starts to sink upon the sand. They are rarely wrong, dear boy... --Edwin O'Connor, The Last Hurrah...
...described how he had told her about shooting at, and missing, right-wing General Edwin Walker in April 1963. Said she: "All of a sudden, I realized that it was not just a manly hobby he had of possessing a rifle. It seemed like he was capable of killing someone with it." She recalled how she had locked him in the bathroom after he spoke of wanting to kill Richard Nixon that same month, and she remembered the morning of Nov. 22, 1963, when he told her not to bother cooking breakfast and then left early for the Texas School...
...politics, especially at a time when the conventional melting-pot wisdom has it that ethnic differences are growing ever less important as a political force. Indeed, it's tempting to compare Levine to Frank Skeffington, the endearingly roguish Irish political boss who cheerfully dominates everyone around him in Edwin O'Connor's classic The Last Hurrah. On the surface, it works. Like Skeffington, Levine has an acute awareness of his culture, and uses it to full advantage--although to Levine this requires much more subtle calculation, as he works through only the parts of the Jewish stereotype that appeal...