Word: maze
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Godlike Genius. In a Christie murder mystery, neatness not only counts, it is everything. As the genre's undisputed queen of the maze, she laid her tantalizing plots so precisely and dropped her false leads so cunningly that few-if any-readers could guess the identity of the villain. The reader surrenders to an enigma in which the foul act of murder seems less a sin against man or God than a breach of etiquette...
Almost no real psychiatry goes on in this maze of aseptic corridors just south of Los Angeles. Instead doctors and med techs run a jerry-rigged system of forced drug use. The drugs are injected through the ass, a practice suspiciously similar to rape and certainly as humiliating, or mixed in dour little cups which are set out each morning with patients' names on them. The Norwalk State Hospital's addiction to drugs is punctuated by scenes from a convention of pharmaceutical companies where doctors windowshop for chemicals. One drug-company salesman happily sums...
...Brother programs with disadvantaged Boston youngsters, feeling perhaps an inordinate amount of pride and relief when Freddie Hubbard and James Baldwin come to Harvard and relate superbly both as artists and Black men. Others feel no compulsion to address the question of race at all, moving through the maze of intense Harvard experiences, positive and negative, as independent entities. Either attitude has its advantages, but both strain under one unavoidable fact: Harvard doesn't especially give a damn...
...increased competition among common carriers could encourage some companies, like large retailers, to cut costs by getting out of the trucking business. These companies have established their own truck fleets, not because it is efficient, but because they felt it was the only way they could cope with the maze of ICC regulations...
...Lake Church. Said he: "Extraordinary means are not morally required to prolong life." The vice chancellor of his diocese, Father Herbert Tillyer, agreed: "There is a profound difference between killing someone and allowing a person to spend his or her last few hours or days free from the maze of machinery that is beautiful only so long as there is hope for some recovery...