Word: suspect
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...priest-teacher, while lecturing him on masturbation, puts his hands around Laurent's thigh; Laurent jealously discovers that his mother has a lover, and then discovers that his doctor-father doesn't seem to care. ("You have to be a saint in this profession," says the gynecologist, but we suspect he's not about to be canonized.) And when, after being hauled off to a roadhouse-brothel by his brothers, Laurent has a small measure of success with a prostitute, his drunken brothers spoil it all by bursting into the room to drag him from bed at a thoroughly inopportune...
...appears that we have now crossed that ominous threshold and are on the road toward a progressively and indefinitely controlled economy. How much further these restraints on our lives will extend and to what ends remains to be seen. I suspect we will be apprised as to what the plummeting arrow on the emblem portends much sooner than we think...
Union chiefs suspect the ability of the Pay Board's business and public members to frame fair guidelines. A.F.L.-C.I.O. President
...movement was seen by many as a critical changing point for the better in Mexican politics. Student leaders recently released from prison are not so sure. They admit that President Echeverria has fought hard to remove all traces of the rightist regime of Diaz Ordaz. But they suspect his intentions, which may be only to solidify his own position rather than to reform the government...
Inevitably the novel itself is ruled by chance. Some sequences click, and others clunk. Much dice-induced motivation is suspect. Luke might have left his wife and children without ever touching the dice. Even when the plot dawdles, Rhinehart's language and humor exert their wiles. Though he leans more to wisecrack than to wit, he gets off fine mimicrys of TV talk shows, journalistic deepthink and professorial psychoanalytic jargon. Between sheets (the book is copiously copulative), Rhinehart works up a positively Joycean lather-blather...