Word: spoor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That bitter game has long fascinated George Steiner, 52, polymathic professor of literature and author of brilliant essays ranging from Homer to Schoenberg and Heidegger. So when he heard that Nazi Hunter Simon Wiesenthal had found the spoor of Mass Murderer Martin Bormann, he began to concoct a scenario: What might happen if a group of Jewish avengers located the Führer? The resulting novel, The Portage to San Cristóbal of A.H., has already aroused angry controversy in Britain ("Astonishing," Anthony Burgess wrote in the Observer, but the New Statesman charged "subversive admiration for Hitler"). The controversy...
...they go, they leave behind them a spoor of debris. According to an organization called Keep America Beautiful, Inc., no less than half a billion dollars was spent during 1963 to pick up discarded litter...