Word: expression
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What's important is not that Tommy is Catholic, but that his hopelessness--those fingers locked into each other--seems to express the futility of the situation in Northern Ireland for everyone. It doesn't really matter whether Tommy is Catholic or Protestant, because a Protestant, especially a working-class Protestant, could say the same thing: that he's seen too many of his relatives, or friends or neighbors, hurt or killed. For Protestants too, the prospects of a civil war--some call it "escalated sectarian violence," others call it "tribal warfare"--mean that they will fight...
...people will react to them. This problem has led Hall into some sticky situations when, for instance, he has been called by The Crimson for comment on a volatile story. Bok and others in Mass Hall have recognized this and have encouraged Hall to quell his impulse to express his gut reactions. For example, in a confidential memo relayed from Daly to Bok, Robin Schmidt, assistant vice president for government affairs, advised in September 1974 that the Bok administration should continue to head off some of Hall's comments that appear to ignore the "scholarly concerns" of members...
Toumanoff is perfectly suited to act as the go-between with the government. A clinical psychologist by training and a Foreign Service officer in Washington and Moscow for 25 years, he seems to express the reverence the practical, experienced man holds for intellectuals. He speaks of Harvard's research facilities, which have been the center's main bait in drawing Soviet scholars from most U.S. state universities and many European schools: "In terms of source material, it's better than anything outside of the Library of Congress--and it's more accessible...
...book that Agatha Christie wrote 30-odd years ago in which her legendary detective, Hercule Poirot, dies. She had wanted it published after her death but recently changed her mind. The reason, according to her publishers, was the box office success of the film Murder on the Orient Express, which created a huge demand for Poirot that the author was too frail to meet with a new book...
Christie quickly became mistress of complex, cerebral plotting. Though she once wrote a book based on the Lindbergh kidnaping (Murder on the Orient Express), she would probably have been powerless even in her prime to turn the Bronfman case into fiction. It was too badly bungled. Among the 65 thrillers she has written in a 55-year career are several classics: The ABC Murders is a fiendish triple trap, Murder in the Clouds, a sleek variant of the locked-room ploy set in the cabin of a small airplane, What Mrs. McGillicuddy Saw, a neat bit of one-upmanship...