Word: quests
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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About a fifth of the way into his 13th and best mystery novel, Robert B. Parker explicitly acknowledges what he is up to: he seeks to re-create, in contemporary context, the medieval quest. In A Catskill Eagle, his hard-boiled detective, Spenser, vows to rescue a maiden imprisoned in a tower. But the modern world, with its complexities ranging from feminism to the military- industrial complex, has all but nullified the chance for such straightforward valor. The "maiden" is Spenser's estranged girlfriend, Susan Silverman; her supposed captor is Spenser's rival for her love; her disappearance...
...Vineyard Gazette, one of America's best country weeklies, from 1920 to 1968 and continued as its editor almost until his death; in Edgartown, Mass., on the offshore island of Martha's Vineyard. Hough's often poetic descriptions of everyday island events and the passing seasons, and his fervent quest to protect the Vineyard from mindless development, brought a steady growth in readership, while his popular book Country Editor (1940), followed by 21 novels, histories, children's tales and collected pieces, spread his fame beyond New England...
Against almost all expectations, it appeared that Hussein had made measurable progress in his quest to seek a new dialogue on the Arab-Israeli relationship. He had reaffirmed to the Reagan Administration that he and moderate Palestinians were interested in negotiations with Israel. He had told Reagan that he had gone over the details of his Washington statement with Arafat before coming to the U.S., and thus was conveying Arafat's "explicit" endorsement of the U.N. resolutions that implicitly recognize Israel's right to exist. Said Hussein: "Every word . . . in my statement is a result of agreement between...
...tortured victim to avenging superhero with startling eclat. Roscoe Lee Browne, Patti LuPone, Michael O'Keefe and Zakes Mokae all have riveting individual moments, yet seem completely in step with Sellars' overall vision. In one swoop, Sellars has brought a fresh burst of energy to America's long- running quest for a true national theater. And that is what being a wunderkind is all about...
Other potential bidders may be scared away by the thought that if Murdoch could not make the paper profitable, no one can. In his quest to put the Post in the black, Murdoch transformed a liberal if tired tabloid into a manic, grab-'em-by-the-lapels paper that jolted readers with apocalyptic headlines. If newsprint could talk, the Post would be the loudest paper in the country. A rambunctious student upsets a teacher? Read all about it in last Wednesday's edition under MOTORMOUTH MENACE MADE ME QUIT. If the Post had not been so uncharacteristically silent about...