Word: ende
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Your fine article "Judging the Judges" [Aug. 20] was long overdue. Obviously, many lawyer-judges are unable to police themselves, and people outside the bar are needed to end the abuses. It seems the lawyers and lawyer-judges want to regulate and control everything and everyone except themselves. Earl Wheby Jr. Atlanta
When the tests end, the overall winner is a dark horse: a turbocharged, fuel-injected, gasoline-burning entry from the University of Manitoba. It is not the most fuel-efficient entry, however. That title goes to the car from Mankato State University in Minnesota, which burned propane gas at a rate of 11.41 miles...
...lowest savings rate of all industrial countries. Houses are only rarely heated from attic to basement. Apartment-house hall lights are connected to timers and only stay on a minute or so while someone passes through. Eating out is a luxury reserved for special occasions. In the end, judgments about the relative wealth of Europeans and Americans turn on one's definition of prosperity. "I have less than if I worked in America," concedes Hans-Heinrich Bittmann, a Düsseldorf advertising executive. "But," he argues, "I live better. More modestly, perhaps, but with less stress and more time...
...blends past, present and future: "Right now she was still in the same ugly, dun-colored frame house on a side street in Michigan, feeling poorly as usual, without a thought of setting out for anywhere, and a certain southbound pair of hikers were still at the Canadian end of the Long Trail, a long way from the Boonton crossing where a very different couple would shortly be murdered. Not that the two leaving Canada had any particular stopping-place in mind." This is the sort of writing that requires the talent and passion of a Faulkner. Clark only succeeds...
FICTION: A Bend in the River, V.S. Naipaul ∙ Collected Stories, Paul Bowles ∙ Living in the Maniototo, Janet Frame ∙ Mirabell: Books of Number, James Merrill ∙ Sophie's Choice, William Styron ∙ Testimony and Demeanor, John Casey ∙ The Living End, Stanley Elkin