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...novelists--too many temptations to flaunt the detritus of years of reading, watching and listening to the culture. Beattie, with her penchant for artsy or newsy allusions, is caught right away. In the opening five pages are references to Richard Nixon, Elvis Presley, Henry Kissinger and Marianne Faithfull. Marshall Lockard, the New England college professor who is at the novel's center, meets an early challenge thus: "He did something he never did: he turned off All Things Considered...
...Beattie's fifth novel focuses on the emotional messes that ensnare New England college professor Marshall Lockard and, before him, his father Miles. "It's enough to make one wince," says TIME's Martha Duffy. "Setting her story in academia -- a trap for many novelists -- Beattie readily succumbs to the temptation to flaunt the detritus of years of reading, watching and listening to the culture. In the opening five pages are references to Richard Nixon, Elvis Presley, Henry Kissinger and Marianne Faithfull. Though an authentic voice of the late 1970s and '80s, with a particular talent for detail and dialogue...
...trainees operating a mobile radar unit at Opana, on Oahu's northern coast, were about to shut down when their watch ended at 7 a.m. Suddenly, Private Joseph Lockard noticed a large blip -- "probably more than 50" planes -- approaching southward from about 130 miles away. On the phone to Fort Shafter, Lockard reported to Lieut. Kermit Tyler "the largest ((flight)) I have ever seen on the equipment." The inexperienced Tyler figured that the planes must be a flight of the new B-17s expected from California. He told Lockard, "Don't worry about...
Dennis F. Thompson is considering accepting the K-School position. W. Duane Lockard, professor of politics at Princeton, said yesterday. Neither Thompson nor K-School officials would comment earlier this week on this possibility...
...Duane Lockard, chairman of Princeton's Politics Department, advocated "a national commission of inquiry" to help decide "where to draw the line between the Bureau's crime enforcement functions and its role in political surveillance...