Word: lieberman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...HERBERT LIEBERMAN 416 pages. Simon & Schuster...
With the appearance of Novelist Herbert Lieberman's City of the Dead, the faint of stomach are in for yet another assault on their feelings. Yet precisely because Lieberman's book, certifiably the shocker of the summer, speeds up the already overaccelerated trend toward limitless carnage, it vividly raises an old, unpopular question: Might not the squeamish have a point after...
...story of municipal corruption, numbingly thorough detective work and a father's anguished attempt to rescue his daughter from some kidnapers, it would make a diverting, if overlong read. But despite the novel's remarkable skill and intensity, it cannot be so taken. What separates Lieberman's book from the general run of hard-boiled adventure fiction is its encyclopedic attention to the subject of human corpses...
...Haven, Conn.; David E. Gottlieb of Quincy House and New York City; David D. Hiller of South House and Chicago; Daniel L. Koffsky of Winthrop House and Washington, D.C.; Rene O. LeBlanc of Kirland House and Worcester; Jerrold S. Levine of Winthrop House and Boston; Marvin B. Lieberman of Adams House and Pittsburgh, Pa.; Richard H. Millington of Winthrop House and Bar Harbor, Me.; Raymond T. Pierrehumbert of Dunster House and Passaic, N.J.; Jeffrey D. Sachs of Adams House and Detroit, Mich.; Alan D. Sokal of North House and Boston; Hal F. Starnes Jr. of Dunster House and Asheville...
...study, Morton A. Lieberman, a psychologist at the University of Chicago, interviewed 85 people between 63 and 91 who, at the beginning of the experiment, were on the waiting lists of three Chicago homes for the aged. All were physically and mentally well before admission to the homes. One year later, 62 of the original sample were interviewed again (23 were unavailable because of death, illness or unwillingness to continue participating in the study). Lieberman found that 44 of the subjects had survived the stress of relocation intact, while the rest had deteriorated markedly. The intact group turned...