Word: narrowness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FIRST DAY OF FRIDAY, by Honor Tracy. Although this light satire about an impoverished Irish vicar does not quite make it down the author's Straight and Narrow Path, it is still mad enough to make very good reading...
High Judgment. Despite his narrow margin of victory, Kennedy's advent to office had raised hopes high. The rhetoric of his inaugural led to extravagant overpraise. But he had asked to be judged by the highest standards, and he died before achieving them...
...Yokohama. While a shoe company executive named Gondo (Toshiro Mifune) struggles with his unprincipled colleagues in a last-ditch fight for control of the firm, a kidnaper strikes. Intending to seize Gondo's young son, he nabs the chauffeur's boy by mistake. Swiftly, the issues narrow to meaningful dimensions: Gondo faces ruin unless he uses his last 50 million yen (approximately $139,000) to consummate a secret stock purchase. Must he, now, give up 30 million yen and a lifetime of work to save another man's son? Bristling at the center of this moral dilemma...
Honor Tracy, who has written the classic of modern Irish farce (her wonderfully vicarish novel, The Straight and Narrow Path), unaccountably neglects this rule in The First Day of Friday. Good Intentions is there all right (young Michael Duff, the impoverished Protestant squire who wants only to marry his Dulcie and persuade his servant Atracta to cook breakfast on time). So are Sedition and Salvation (respectively Atracta, the mindless mother of fatherless triplets, and her confessor, the insane but otherwise reasonable Father Behan). There is, furthermore, the besotted yardman Tomo who leads a bull into Michael Duff's kitchen...
...every book by or about Baath and I could understand nothing." A Western diplomat describes it as an "Arab Cosa Nostra." On the contrary, one knowledgeable observer thinks Baath "is probably ahead of its time-reformist, progressive and secular in a world of Arabs bound by tradition, religion and narrow, personal interest...