Word: princetons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...widespread fear in Iran, they point out, that if the leaders of the former regime were not brought swiftly to trial, armed radical guerrillas would then take vengeance into their own hands. "I'm disappointed by the way the trials have been conducted under closed auspices," says Princeton's Richard Falk, "but we must remember that those men executed were implicated in crimes against their people. In that context, we can compare their punishments with war criminals in Germany and Japan who were killed for crimes against humanity...
...writer is his ability to persuade an audience to suspend disbelief. Walter F. Murphy persuades. In his hands, the audacious thesis of this massive, complex first novel becomes fascinatingly logical and intellectually gripping. No better fiction on the world of the Vatican is now in print. Murphy, a Princeton law professor, is a compulsive storyteller, and in The Vicar of Christ he tells three tales that could have made books in themselves. Part 1, reliving Declan Walsh's military adventures in Korea through the ripely phrased recollections of a Marine master gunnery sergeant, is a crisp, realistic novella. Part...
...invasion of South Korea. As a combat platoon leader, he won the Purple Heart and the Distinguished Service Cross, then came home to teach government at the U.S. Naval Academy. Mustered out in 1955, he took his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago. Since 1958 he has taught at Princeton, and in 1968 was named McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence. He has written six books on law and politics, one of which figures as an inside joke in The Vicar of Christ: the Associate Justice narrating the second part cites a title from a certain "vulgar political scientist...
Though he will be back living and teaching at Princeton next fall, Murphy plans more novels. One, a spy story, is almost finished. Another, on which he has already done considerable research, will be a fictional biography of St. Peter. Although Murphy has yet to hear criticism from Vatican sources, he has already received a severe appraisal from one reader. His mother, the English teacher, is uneasy with the language in the Korean War section. She allowed that she "understood the point," reports Murphy, "but she didn't approve...
File away last week's impressive win over Princeton. The unexpected results that struck the Radcliffe heavies this weekend in Hanover, N.H., have put a damper on the ascent to ecstasy begun last Saturday with the victory over the Tigers...