Word: sib
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Attempting to bring black women together, ABRW this year has sponsored a "Big Sib" program for incoming black freshman women, a meeting to provide general information about University Health Services, and a dinner with W. Antoinette Ford, formerly a member of the presidential clemency board and now a fellow at the Institute of Politics...
...story tells the plight of Miles Faber, a wealthy young pedant who is determined to visit the Caribbean island of Castita in order to discover facts about a totally unsung native poet named Sib Legeru. His innocent search soon plunges him into confrontations with menacing strangers who demand answers to fantastic questions instead of replying to Miles' simple ones. Worse, he learns that not only is he the child of an incestuous union but that he also has both a sister and a double on the island. Murder and mayhem follow with appropriate speed...
Burgess leaves a plethora of clues as to his abstruse purposes-most of them in multilingual hints and guesses. The story starts in Manhattan's Algonquin Hotel. The man who encouraged Miles' interest in Sib Legeru, for instance, is one Professor Keteki-Sanskrit for riddle. While killing time with TV in his hotel room, Miles watches an old movie with Death and Transfiguration (by Richard Strauss) on the sound track...