Word: midnight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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FICTION: Mantissa, John Fowles -A Midnight Clear, William Wharton Monsignor Quixote, Graham Greene My Old Sweetheart, Susanna Moore Selected Stories, Robert Walser The Third World War, General Sir John Hackett
...such ways was the country affected last week when 26,000 members of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers walked off their jobs. The strike, which began one minute after midnight on Sunday, lasted only four days. By its second day Ronald Reagan had introduced emergency legislation in Congress ordering the engineers to accept a new contract and report back to work; the House and Senate overwhelmingly approved the resolution during the next two days. "It's not pleasant to bring forth legislation that affects the right to strike," said Democratic Congressman John Dingell of Michigan chairman of the House...
Coming soon . . . the blockbuster business epic of the year! See corporate giants devour one another in titanic clashes. See captains of industry race against midnight deadlines to save their power and prestige. Will Bill Agee of Bendix Corp. and his beautiful blond bride Mary escape the clutches of Martin Marietta Corp.'s menacing Tom Pownall? Will tough old Harry Gray of United Technologies foil their plans to find happiness in the embrace of Ed Hennessy of Allied Corp.? Find out in Takeover, the drama that asks the question: "Is this any way to run a company...
...Romance covers 20 years in the history of the Zinns of western Pennsylvania. From the abduction of the youngest sister, Deride a "strangely haunted child" to the "final bold stroke of midnight, December 31, 1899." "Although presented as a true chronicle the events tend towards the fantastic from the initial sequence in which Deride disappears in a black silk balloon. Yet such events are treated as commonplace (if confusing) as is sexual mutability. Neither ghost nor devil is long absent from the Zinn hearth...
Apparently the Germans have also read All Quiet on the Western Front, and in the original. Enough said. A Midnight Clear, like William Wharton's previous novels, Birdy and Dad, does not benefit from having its plot laid bare. The author's gift is an ability to convey emotional clarity in simple prose that transforms incongruities into sharp visual impressions. Snowy woods are both Christmas cards and killing grounds; the château is fortress and cultural repository. A violin liberated from beneath the rafters becomes part of an unusual still life when it is casually set against...