Word: luke
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...figuratively, the Wingos of "Colleton, S.C.," are crazy about one another. Father Henry is a shrimper whose feelings for his family are well disguised with verbal and physical abuse. His wife Lila despises his brutality and low status and dreams of moving up in Colleton society. Eldest Son Luke, the Rambo of the salt marshes, returns from Viet Nam to wage a one- man guerrilla war against the construction of plutonium production plants. Brother Tom is an ex-high school football coach struggling with the aftermath of a nervous breakdown and a failing marriage. His twin sister Savannah...
...complex defense of an asbestos manufacturer as part of a multimillion-dollar liability suit, the six-member partnership faced a shortage of able-bodied attorneys to handle depositions. St. Clair's solution: the firm hired six lawyers for the job as temps. In the same fashion, when St. Luke's Hospital in Duluth, Minn., needed a qualified radiologist to work for just a month to cover for vacationing staff, they rented the services of a physician who had most recently done similar stints at hospitals in Fort Kent, Me., and Ketchikan, Alaska...
...thought the new [tenure] policy would changethe situation enough so that [a luke-warmdepartment endorsement] would not carry the samestigma for a young [tenure] candidate that it didin the past," said a faculty member, who spoke onthe condition that he not be identified...
...faculty member said that Spence's decisionto halt Brinkley's review after the luke-warmdepartment approval was due to the dean's concernthat with such a weak recommendation a youngscholar would not successfully complete the tenureprocess...
...that tradition. Wilson chronicles tribal hatred in an Alabama hill- country clan headed by a self-taught itinerant preacher, Robert Treadwell, who speaks in earthy parables and commits self-mutilation. The book begins and ends with fireball confrontations between the evangelist and his firstborn son, recalled by another son, Luke. The rest, rich in incident, sounds the depths of sexual betrayal and despair. Treadwell calls himself a storyteller, a term that provides a sly, apt link between novelist and revivalist. Each, Wilson suggests, is trying in his way to explain the random nature of fate. In both the father...