Word: marvelling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Turquoise Lament, McGee learns that a thieving Florida lawyer blocks the forward progress of justice-and of the plot. He invades the miscreant's country estate, eases him from the middle of a disgraceful orgy, binds him and drops him live into a freshly dug backwoods grave-a marvel of vengeful fantasy. Lawyers are the schoolyard bullies of modern society, against whom no ordinary child dares battle, and here is one of them with fear in his heart and swamp water in his ears, lying at the bottom of a mucky hole and spilling out his guilt to McGee...
...knew of the impending Chilean coup before it happened but did nothing [Oct. 1]. I marvel that we spent tens of billions to fight for "democracy" in Viet Nam, but wouldn't spend 10? for a warning phone call to the democratically elected President of Chile...
...continuum of his mind as though it, too, will never die and fade into the memories of a one-time quarterback who went to training camp with the St. Louis Cardinals and was never heard from again, Crone is gone. You missed him. You'll never watch and marvel at the "Zone" or his matchless talents. What are you going to do about Endzone Crone...
Once, the FBI's centralized criminal files seemed a gangbuster's marvel: a mere call to the computer in Washington could bring an instant rundown on a suspected Sacramento bank robber. Today Americans are more sensitive to the sinister uses of such rich stores of information. Massachusetts, for example, has gone to extraordinary lengths to ensure that its own statewide criminal-data system contains safeguards. Access to the files is carefully limited by law, and any citizen has the right to examine and correct any entry under his name. One crucial point: in Massachusetts arrests are not listed...
...pleasurable disillusions, and-for the reader who is unyoung, unrich and undelighted-you have a fantasy very nearly worth 19 reruns. Archer's middle-aged tiredness is the necessary anchor in reality; the reader is not Billy Batson any more, and he will not believe Captain Marvel...