Word: sinclairism
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...veteran decided to retire and Studds now faces the man Keith beat in the 1970 Republican primary former State Senator William Weeks. Weeks is grandson of former Senator John Wingate Weeks after whom the Weeks Bridge is named, and son of former U.S. Senator and Eisenhower Administration Treasury Secretary Sinclair Weeks...
...London's janitors. Mythically, they are the survivors of a race of defeated giants. An odd couple whose meaning is obscured by the mists of prehistory, they suggest the dual nature of a single being. Brought up to date by the English novelist, playwright and historian, Andrew Sinclair, Gog and Magog come to signify the haunting memory and failing desire of a geratic Britain...
...Sinclair's demonic duo first appeared in his 1967 novel, Gog. Like Magog, it was a witty, often brilliant fusing of legend and flesh, satire and swan song. Gog began with a seven-foot-tall amnesiac washed up on a Scottish beach. He proceeded, dreamlike, toward London, where he found his true identity as a wealthy Celtic scholar named George Griffin...
Magog is a contemporary wizard -a civil servant whose vast power derives from the ritual manipulation of a bureaucracy that is every bit as arcane as any occult Druidic circle. With engaging arrogance he can honestly boast that "England waits at my out tray." As a highly informed fabulist, Sinclair romps through the same corridors of power that C.P. Snow shuffles through as an unimaginative realist. Myth, politics and culture are nimbly glossed as the author tells of Magog's rise to wealth and prestige. In 1948 Magog, as a specialist in foreign affairs, pays for his sack time...
...Sinclair's novel aspires to any profundity, it is guardedly suggested by his conception of history as an illusive collection of myths that must work themselves out until they return to their original unpolluted form. Magog's corruption and putative incest are steps in his perverted search to regain innocence. "R.Z. Sheppard