Word: llewelyn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...country in 1919, and his father fought in the White army against the Bolsheviks. He is able to tick off his accomplishments in an oh-by-the-way manner: author of the SALT memo, an originator of the ban on nuclear arms in space, and the author of Ambassador Llewelyn Thompson's appeal to the Soviets, in 1967, for a collaborative effort" to solve "world problems of food, population and energy," as he puts...
What emerges from Mrs. Lowry's arrangement is the story of Ethan Llewelyn, an alcoholic who gave up the practice of law when a man he had successfully defended proved to be guilty of a horrible crime. Unfortunately, Lowry never got around to filling in the details of this crucial episode in Llewelyn's life. An assortment of character sketches and plot shards adhere to a rather slack narrative line that draws Llewelyn and his wife Jacqueline through a portentous search for a new home...
...they have been transformed into a pair of unearthly representatives of a pagan diaspora. And not too subtly. The fire and water that drove them from their previous homes are invested with stage magic. Old men mutter about the qualities of wood as if spirits lived in the grain. Llewelyn feels foreshadowings in everything from snatches of movie dialogue to highway billboards. Symbols wash up out of the sea and appear...
...Llewelyn, who somehow equates his abuse of alcohol with a magician's misuse of his powers, Gabriola beckons like a nondenominational land of the dead. Like Hades, it is a waiting room for both heaven and hell-a nice quiet place with no scheduled activities...
...prodding of the Center, Walt Rostow and Henry Rowen persuaded the American negotiator at Geneva, Llewelyn Thompson, to propose the "hot line" to the Russian delegate; the proposal was accepted ("Neither is known as being a dove," Schelling said of Rostow and Rowen, "but both were very strong for arms arrangements with the Russians. I would guess Rowen did more to keep nuclear weapons out of Western Europe than anyone you can name...