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Despite his country of origin, Arkady is not the customary exotic beloved by lending-library readers. For too long, detective fiction has been populated with deliberately unusual sleuths-omniscient priests and wonder rabbis, black, Oriental and Indian investigators whose ethnicity is more important than their cases. If Arkady has any equivalent it is George Smiley, the resolutely unglamorous star of John le Carré's spyworks. Like Smiley, Arkady has an inconstant wife; like him he is beset with interdepartmental intrigue and divided loyalties...
...body-containing the bones of a man, a woman and two small children. Next summer, more coffins were unearthed, all decorated with human masks, wigged in the Egyptian manner and topped by Egyptian lotus flowers. Inside were the remains of long-faced, large-skulled people of apparently Egyptian origin. For their voyage to the nether world, they were accompanied by such Egyptian burial adornments as seals and scarabs, solid-gold teardrop earrings, beads of gold and carnelian (reddish quartz), lotus-shaped alabaster goblets. The coffins even contained alabaster spoons, in the shape of a swimming girl, to apply cosmetics. Some...
...article by Susan C. Faludi (December 18) was welcome in that it attempted to remedy the almost total lack of knowledge among students concerning the origin, structure, and purpose of CRR. Unfortunately, it was most notable for what...
...dissatisfaction with CRR stems not from its "tainted" origin, but from its shadowy nature. CRR appears to give students some voice in handling of a subset of disciplinary cases, but CRR has in reality no clear jurisdiction and could be easily circumvented. The method of selection of student representatives is haphazard...
Reagan was wrong about the beliefs of most scientists, but his political instincts were more right. Particularly at the local level, the creationists represent strong popular feeling. In Dallas, school officials recommended that teachers use books that teach "two models" of the origin of life and the earth, Darwinian and creationist. In Anchorage, ninth-grade teachers have been ordered to skip the sections in history texts dealing with evolution, at least until the school board can provide additional material on divine creation...