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...crime writers do your murdering for % you, and food writers eat lavishly at absurd expense so that you need not bother. Such a deal -- but hark! Novelist Haughton Murphy does all this and is funny in the bargain. His hero is an elderly, retired lawyer named Reuben Frost, who keeps getting into other people's trouble. In this seventh outing in the series, A VERY VENETIAN MURDER (Simon & Schuster; $19), Frost and his wife Cynthia are taking their ease in Venice when someone murders an American dress designer. The soft-boiled detective is 77, and when danger threatens, he takes...
...anti-Western, nationalistic regime in Moscow would probably not resemble the old U.S.S.R., but it could stake its claim to superpower status by refurbishing the nuclear arsenal of Russia's still immense armed forces and recharging its military-industrial complex. Then, in the first frost of a new cold war, accusatory voices would rise in the West, demanding to know, "Who lost Russia...
...Matthews not explain that his "informant," former HSA President Robert D. Frost '92, spoke on condition of anonymity "simply because [his] term as President has ended and [he is] no longer affiliated with HSA"? Frost was not trying to imply, as Matthews did, that HSA was undertaking a covert operation...
This is becoming a familiar line: "The cold war is over, and Japan won." Much of the rationale for America's global military role is gone, and the U.S. must now find a new place in a complex world economy. Robert Frost once wrote a poem called The Oven Bird: "The question that he frames in all but words/ Is what to make of a diminished thing." America, still the most powerful economy, nonetheless feels itself to be somehow the diminished thing...
Foundation President William L. Frost '48 pointed to the Division's technological resources, as well as to "the Judaica Department's experience and accomplishments" and its "great Hebraica resources," as factors in the choice of Harvard for the grant...