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...still raises sheep, cuts timber and grows oats and corn on his 668-acre farm, the new Prime Minister mixes easily with all kinds of people and speaks to them in simple language about their problems. Admitted an envious Social Democratic politician: "Fälldin is like your next-door neighbor. He's what people think of as typically Swedish. He's a clever, honest...
Peonies for Life. How one misses that old supporting cast! Much more than Poirot, Miss Marple inhabits a fixed and lively world. There is her tactless next-door neighbor, Miss Hartnell. "weather-beaten and jolly and much dreaded by the poor"; the wealthy, amiable Bantrys; taciturn Sir Henry dithering, who once ran Scotland Yard; and the village snob, Mrs. Price Ridley. Among Agatha Christie lovers, that lady is justly famous for putting a pound in the offertory bag on the anniversary of her son's death and then severely taxing gentle Vicar Clement when his counts show the largest...
...million in an out-of-court settlement) to the family of a woman who had been raped and beaten to death in a bloody 45-minute battle in her apartment. The rapist-killer, on parole for armed robbery, had been allowed into the building to move furniture in a next-door apartment, even though he was clearly drunk. Worse, a fellow workman noticed his absence when he heard the woman screaming. Instead of rushing to the rescue, he phoned his boss. The jury found the murderer's employers and the landlord liable. The company had not checked...
...presidential choice than he and Fritz Mondale met with 90 black clergymen in New York. Georgia Congressman Andrew Young, 44, an ordained Congregationalist minister, told the group that it was no accident that Carter is in tune with blacks. Announced Young: "By the grace of God, Jimmy's next-door neighbor was a black bishop." Responded the ministers: "Amen!" Continued Young: "From the early days of his life, he had to watch that bishop drive his long black Packard by his house." "Amen." "His father and the bishop used to have prayer meetings together." "Amen." "In a mysterious...
...observes Elie Wiesel, "feels closer to the prophet Elijah than to his next-door neighbor." Analyzing like a good modern, revering like a good Jew, Wiesel portrays in these essays the majestic figures of the Old Testament rather as if he were writing a memoir about beloved but salty grandfathers and great-uncles from the East Side. Certainly Moses and Cain and Abel and even Adam seem as pungently real to him as the Jews he knew as a child in Auschwitz and Buchenwald. In returning to the first Diaspora, the first murder, the first exile, Author Wiesel appears...