Word: inspector
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dead whales; the rest are processed on huge factory ships at sea. The Japanese-American agreement-unless it is revised following President Nixon's Hawaii talks with Japanese Premier Kakuei Tanaka-thus means little more than that Japan is willing to make a gesture to appease what Whaling Inspector Kineo Kegasawa calls America's "cry-boy environmentalists...
...centered totally on the village or hamlet where a man had a fixed place and derived his whole identity from his link to the village and the worship of his ancestors. Says FitzGerald: "Americans live in a society of replaceable parts-in theory, anyone can become President or sanitary inspector-but the Vietnamese lived in a society of particular people...
...enterprises launched in the hopeful '60s have been as successful as a square, spare gumshoe called Inspector Van der Valk. The humane Amsterdam police detective was the creation of Nicholas Freeling, a 45-year-old ex-hotel cook who put away his pots a decade ago and took to publishing suspense novels at the rate of one a year. Since then, Van der Valk has been probing characters, savoring cookery and solving crimes (mainly murder in high or low degree) around Holland and neighboring countries. Van der Valk books have attracted a steadily growing international audience and collected...
...with Simenon's Inspector Maigret, exposure to Van der Valk is likely to prove infectious. Even when the story seems to unwind in slow motion, Van der Valk's reflective concern for the role of character in crime makes the trip worthwhile. The prizewinning Criminal Conversation (1966), for instance, presents an Amsterdam society doctor, highly intelligent but neurotic and febrile, who is unprovably guilty of murder. In a long series of informal conversations, Van der Valk, in effect, kills the man with kindness and understanding, finally inveigling him into admitting his crime by laying bare the poverty...
...them explained their motives. Through the use of a series of "tapes" that make up the final report to the commissioner Mills is able to do the police in different voices: the cynic, the "book" man, the black who thinks of himself as "Negro," the Chief Inspector with a limited supply of courage...