Word: macdonald
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...TURQUOISE LAMENT 286 pages. Lippincott. $6.95. by JOHN D. MacDONALD...
...novel refreshes the spirit as little else can. Reading one is the literary equivalent of retreating to the cellar with a jug. Naturally it is not easy to find a good worthless novel, but this month the reader with a November in his soul is in luck. John D. MacDonald, the nation's best writer of no-qual crime fantasies, has turned out two splendid and utterly unmeritorious volumes...
...Scarlet Ruse and The Turquoise Lament are the 14th and 15th installments of MacDonald's serially published dream manual about the beachboy Hamlet, Travis McGee. This paladin is a roughneck who lives on a houseboat in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., despoiling stewardesses and brooding about the decline of the West. He quests forth, when funds are low, to do battle for the dread forces of reality-a Robin Hood among chattel rustlers who steals loot back from thugs and swindlers and returns it, minus a 50% commission, to the widows and orphans from whom it was taken. Oftener than...
...Torbert MacDonald '69 asks voters to ask the question "Paranoid or Pragmatist?" in assessing him as a potential city councilman. The question is well put. The electorate's decision to vote for him will depend on which one of those two ways they...
...MacDonald is perhaps the most radical of this year's candidates. If elected he will use his seat "as an organizing position" and will resort to non-violent civil disobedience if he feels it is warranted...