Word: precisionism
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In the absence of historical references, an active plot and sharp conflict, the novel is vulnerable to interpretation. Is Bartfuss a wandering Jew in, of all places, Zion? Is his folkloric deathlessness the author's way of saying that, even with their own nation, Jews are eternally restless and unsettled...
No, while Harvard has tried to teach me of worldly learning, instead I have come to a much different plane of learning. Not of God, and teachings of the higher being, mind you; my moral reasoning requirement remains, at this writing, forlornly unfulfilled. Nor have I come to understand in...
Reputation aside, Cloud had made another kind of name for himself when he first came to Washington in 1973. Correspondent David Beckwith, who had nicknames for everyone in the bureau, dubbed him "Stormy." Whenever Cloud's demands for precision and thoroughness were not met, says Administrative Assistant Katharine McNevin, "you...
The trick is to suggest this possibility with precision and economy. The Child in Time does so brilliantly, from the moment Stephen Lewis realizes his three-year-old daughter is missing from a supermarket check-out: "The lost child was everyone's property. But Stephen was alone. He looked through...
U.S. Senators found occasion last week to vent their anger about the situation during confirmation hearings for T. Allan McArtor, President Reagan's nominee to be the new head of the FAA, replacing Donald Engen, who left office July 2. McArtor, 45, a senior vice president of Federal Express who...