Word: jameses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This is especially true in state and local courts, where most of American justice is meted out. "In some ways we now function just as we did in the days of Charles Dickens," says Judge James Lynch, chief justice of the Massachusetts Superior Court.
James Hays, professor of geology, will discuss comparative planetology; this may be rocky going, but it's solid stuff.
"Education and Society: The Harvard Tradition" will be a big draw, mostly because it is a general enough topic for anyone. James Q. Wilson is widely recognized as a good performer, even by those who consider his authoritarian and bureaucratic leanings a little on the fascist side.
Charles Dickens drew Mr. Micawber straight from the outlines of his own bumbling, eternally optimistic father. When James Joyce created Simon Dedalus in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Ulysses, he took a cold look at his da and virtually transcribed the old man's...
FICTION: A Bend in the River, V.S. Naipaul ∙ Living in the Maniototo, Janet Frame ∙ Mirabell: Books of Number, James Merrill ∙ Sleepless Nights, Elizabeth Hardwick Sophie's Choice, William Styron Testimony and Demeanor, John Casey ∙ The Living End, Stanley Elkin