Word: forsythe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...encounter with the Klan was probably my most dramatic adventure as a reporter in North Carolina but it was not typical. More common were dull evenings at high school commencements or jaunts to union meetings at rural hamburger stands. At the Forsyth County Courthouse I heard well-meaning politicians worry about library book thefts and ambulance service. At Winston-Salem's City Hall I watched a gruff old Republican alderman roll his eyes while a fellow board member--a 28-year-old former Black Panther--discussed problems of old people in a housing project...
Frederick Forsyth With three phenomenal successes behind him, Novelist Forsyth (The Day of the Jackal, The Odessa File, The Dogs of War) at 39 has sworn off writing. "It's a grind, a sweat," he says. A Briton, Forsyth left England in 1974 to escape having to pay an 83% tax on royalties. After a year in Spain, he and his Ulster-born wife Carrie settled in Ireland, where they bought and refurbished Kilgarron, an 18th century manor house surrounded by 25 acres of woodland in County Wicklow. When things are dull, the Forsyths go to Dublin or London...
African mercenaries: the very term is redolent of Bondish machismo memories. "Mad Mike" Hoare and his swaggering Fifth Commando punishing the ragtag Congolese army during the 1965 Katanga rebellion. Or perhaps Frederick Forsyth's dirty dozen in The Dogs of War, liberating the fictional kingdom of Zangaro from a maniacal, Soviet-backed African dictator-for a price...
...Salisbury believes differently. "I take the subway back uptown. The city may ba a jungle to some, but the beacon still burns...I believe New York and the other great cities of our country will find their way forward again. The light on Forsyth Street may be a small one, but it gives a spark that can set our hearts on fire...
...familiar streets his mind begins to play tricks on him. He imagines that he hears the voices of Puerto Rican youths shouting after him. It begins to rain, and Salisbury thinks to himself, "not likely anyone will come after me in the rain." It is then that he reaches Forsyth Street and his island of light, and when he finds a beacon of hope in the mission school's dogged good work, you still smell his fear not far away...