Word: limitless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...
...encouraged, for example, because they use energy efficiently. But burning coal or oil in a power plant to heat homes electrically should be discouraged because 97% of the energy is wasted. Indeed, all heating and cooling of U.S. buildings should be done with solar energy, which is virtually limitless and thus, at least in the long run, cheap...
...seeing the cash flow. Now that wouldn't be a bad thing, and even to imply it is perhaps pinning Leonard down too much. If he stays at it his theory of culture and society will no doubt emerge, as well as a slightly broader perspective on his limitless beat. And Leonard's own writing, in the meantime, is a little culture of its own, enough to make waiting around to see how he develops hardly a painful process...
Ambler writes novels of, um, "international intrigue"--geographical thrillers, you might say. He evades repetitiveness because his genre can be made to have limitless possibilities. You can only murder so many duchesses in so many English manor houses, but Ambler has the whole world to spy in. And his leftist view of society (which is not incorruptible--more of that later) spurs him to take great pains letting the social conditions and political situations of his settings inform the way the plot works itself...
...suspect that the mistake is his own. On a sunny morning, the brother and sister in Let Us Hasten Quickly to the Gate of Ivory try to visit their parents' graves and succumb to "subdued, also meditative horror" when they realize that they are lost in a limitless cemetery...