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...improved education for Britain's blacks. To reduce glaring inequities, it also endorses the concept of "positive discrimination," known in the U.S. as affirmative action, especially with regard to police hiring. Only .5% of police in London are black. Scarman closes by quoting from Lyndon Johnson's foreword to a report on the racial disorders that racked the U.S. in the 1960s: "We should attack these conditions-not because we are frightened by conflict, but because we are fired by conscience...
...Cardinal Sins is about as good a novel as it is a pun. The lives of its four leading characters, Greeley explains in a foreword, are shaded by one or more of the traditional seven cardinal sins (pride, covetousness, lust, anger, gluttony, envy and sloth). Greeley follows Patrick Donahue, his friend Kevin Brennan, and the two women in their lives, Ellen Foley and Maureen Cunningham, from a pre-seminary adolescent summer to the slopes of middle age. As a priest, Kevin is a controversial writer and social scientist who bears an unflattering resemblance to the author. Donahue, clearly more fictional...
...fidelity usually reserved for a Monet. Though he wrote Here Comes the Sun and Something, Harrison was not the foremost of the Fab Four as everyone - perhaps including George himself - would agree. "The small change of a short lifetime" is the way he describes the contents in a foreword. "I have suffered for this book; now it's your turn...
...name" commercials. Whatever your previous acquaintance with James F. "Jim" Fixx, you know he is America's best-known preacher of the gospel of running. He has presented the swelling ranks of runners with a sequel to The Complete Book of Running (which, he acknowledges in the foreword to Jim Fixx's Second Book of Running, may have been titled a touch presumptuously...
...host" of Vendler's party, and he contributes the title of her book. Vendler has tucked it away in her review of John Berryman's Dream Songs in which Henry, Berryman's persona, is "as part of nature, a part of us." And in her foreword, Vendler expands upon this theme...