Word: loring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Male or Female? The author's literary pilgrimage takes her through diverting patches of angelic lore. Biblically speaking, most angels are confined to the hierarchical ranks in heaven-seraphim, cherubim, thrones, dominions, powers, etc. Only the lowest ranks, archangels and angels, have ever had contact with man, appearing as messengers and ministers of God, especially at crucial moments when things had to be done that defied human logic-opening the Red Sea, for example, so that the children of Israel could pass. But no scriptural source deals adequately with such practical matters as what angels wore, what they really...
...Military lore is replete with tales of slick operators who fast-talk their way past obtuse superiors, navigate bureaucratic absurdities and come out winners. Sergeant Bilko of TV and Milo Minderbinder of Catch-22 are winked at as engaging barracks rogues, and most Americans only chuckle when told, as one Pentagon official said last week, that "everyone has his own racket in the Army...
Along the way on his various projects. Nader has cultivated a sizable lore to surround his public image. One Washington burcaucrat told me very solemnly this summer that Nader never sleeps, rarely eats, and only takes time off from his work to visit his mother in Connecticut. Another man pointed out the spot on F Street in downtown Washington where Nader supposedly disappeared one sunny day, only to emerge two hours later on a speaker's podium in California...
Among the serious plays, Arthur Kopit's Indians traces the indignities, betrayals and expropriation of the red man by the white man, with Stacey Keach playing a not quite credible liberal Buffalo Bill. John Osborne has delved into spy lore of the early 20th century for his A Patriot for Me; his hero, played by Maximilian Schell, is a homosexual secret-service officer in the Austro-Hungarian Army who is blackmailed into spying for the Russians. The "drag ball" scene that opens the second act has been a titillating conversation piece ever since the play premiered in London...
...well-packaged literary supermarket. His hope, clearly, is that readers in need of predigested fact and opinion should search no farther. Furnished with a vast array of knowledge-much of it the result of his French secondary-school education -he includes generous helpings of statistics, history, philosophy and lore...