Word: musts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DeLillo reconstructs an Oswald and a series of events from the 26 volumes of the Warren Report. Because this is fiction, the outlines of Oswald and of the events are clear. Everything in the novel has a hard factual edge. Everything sounds reported, even what must be pure speculation. When the characters descend into dialect or private associations, DeLillo often lets his narrative voice accompany them, but this is not a relaxation of his distant, researched style. The diction or the sentence structure may change, but the tone never slips; DeLillo remains detached...
...been characterized by serviceable but relatively primitive weapons, known more for brute strength than sophistication. That is true as well of the military's tough but poorly trained personnel, who, because of ethnic diversity, often do not speak the same language; up to one-quarter of all Soviet draftees must be taught Russian before they can understand their commanders...
...Josh is astute enough to understand that his bar mitzvah was more a ceremonial aspiration than a sudden transformation. Between childhood and adulthood lies the ridiculous and treacherous territory of adolescence. It is a region full of dangers, brainless impulses, hormonal furies. And it must be crossed...
...didn't want us to be what he was," says the elder Abel. "He wanted something more for us." That wish came true. Abel and Mary Louise provide four sons with the comforts and opportunities of a middle-class upbringing. But they worry about the hurdles their third son must now clear, barriers that seem even higher than when Abel and Xavi were in school: the increased prevalence of drugs and alcohol, the growing temptations of early sex. They worry about a terrible undertow that drags children down, that somehow robs them of hope or motivation...
...frequently complain that they are not accorded the same respect that their white colleagues receive. Archibald Murray, executive director of the Legal Aid Society in New York City, says black members of his staff have been stopped and searched because court officers assumed that a black entering the courtroom must be a defendant...