Word: sage
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Books by the children of famous authors are guaranteed an interested or curious audience. On the debit side, the comparisons that follow are likely to be odious. Susan Cheever, 36, accepts this mixed blessing with considerable panache. She never pretends to write like her old man, John, the sage of Ossining, but she alludes regularly and playfully to his imposing presence. When her heroine, Salley Gardens (nee Potter), gets married, one of the wedding guests is J.C. Salley's father, a Columbia University professor, commits an unacknowledged theft from a Cheever short story when commenting on his older brother...
...baby will impose some new demands on the haphazard, casual Gummer household; Meryl's recorded mes sage on her phone-answering machine sounds more laid back than most new parents are allowed to be: "Hello...
...Republic. Alert for injustice and foolishness, Richard L. Strout of the Christian Science Monitor, the pseudonymous TRB, has wielded the "royal we" for more than 35 years now. TRB: Views and Perspectives on the Presidency provides the first anthologized look at this sometimes prescient, often witty and always rational sage of the Washington scene...
Lawrence followed the tracks deep into the desert to a low adobe house behind a big stand of sagebrush. "It hit my mind that gray sage don't grow that tall," he remembers. "I dropped to the ground and rolled under my truck with my gun. I figured I was about to get my head blowed off." The sagebrush was piled on top of more than a thousand pounds of marijuana. But the smugglers had gone to town for some sleep. Lawrence and a dozen agents were waiting when they got back...
...fans around me had turned with a smile, obviously knowing a newcomer was about to get the full treatment from a bleacher sage...