Word: secretes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seems to have developed a sense of what loneliness and isolation can do, even to the most simple, hardworking folk. Such people, earnest and a little unhinged, began popping up in her fiction: a spinster trying to manage a remote farm, a young female helper and a bizarre secret concealed on the premises (The Well); an old man dreaming up plans to disrupt the nursing home into which he has been dumped (Mr. Scobie's Riddle...
...Weekly's secret is her desire to take her savings, hoarded over many years of sweeping and scrubbing, and buy some land where she can spend the rest of her days in peace. Her problem is the arrival of Nastasya Torben, an imperious Russian emigre and former employer, newly widowed, who has unaccountably moved into the confines of Weekly's room and responsibility. After years of cultivating solitude and independence, the Newspaper of Claremont Street must confront disquieting impulses toward generosity. "Pore old Narsty," Weekly thinks about her disconsolate and unwanted roommate, and wonders how she can set herself free...
...violence seemed to be coming from all sides. At least part of it was reportedly from former Tonton Macoutes, members of the disbanded secret police. But the military, which in some areas was out of control, was also apparently responsible. Finally at 8:50 a.m. Pierre Shavet, an official of the independent electoral council, issued a declaration that "the elections are canceled...
Stephen's mother won custody of him in the divorce and forbade him to have any contact with his father. "She would have members of her family follow me to see if I met him in secret," he recalls. "She would telephone his apartment to see if I answered, then hang up. I was a substitute for him, and she took out all her anger and craziness on me. From her I get my tendency to hysteria. It was not a great relationship." It never improved: Sondheim has helped his mother financially but has gone through long periods...
...economy stand at a turning point, the timing could hardly be better for the appearance of Secrets of the Temple: How the Federal Reserve Runs the Country (Simon & Schuster; 798 pages; $24.95) by William Greider, the national editor of Rolling Stone magazine. Greider, whose 1981 Atlantic article revealed David Stockman's secret doubts about Reaganomics and caused the President to take his young budget director "to the woodshed," is once again at his provocative best. The book, which takes its name from the fact that in ancient times the creation of money often occurred in temples, is a lucid...