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SHADOW MAN: THE LIFE OF DASHIELL HAMMETT by Richard Layman Harcourt Brace Jovanovich; 285 pages...
...layman with a longstanding interest in ecclesiastical architecture, I found James Wilde's "In New York: Mortar and the Cathedral" [May 25] encouraging. It is refreshing to know that men are willing, even eager, to contribute to a monument whose completion is tentatively 30 years away...
Micheal Lavery, a New York-based Maryknoll layman who is a friend of Bourgeois, said yesterday Duarte's statement was "an attempt to unjustly blame the victim, and to lessen any possible suspicion of the El Salvadoran paramilitary's involvement in the priest's disappearance...
...greatest service Goodfield provides however, is simply her love in describing for the layman modern science and its workers. Popularizing science is a necessary project in a democratic culture where such work is subsidized by universities and government agencies. Yet since the time of Einstein (who was the first to write two accounts of his theories one for the public and one for the profession), science has slithered further and further away from the layman. Although popularization is becoming more common, in many ways it is also becoming less accessible. And science has become for many, a secret brotherhood dealing...
...Another drawback with the plant is that reactions can be difficult to read for a layman. The changes are often very subtle," she added...