Word: trust
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...TRUST by George V. Higgins (Henry Holt; $18.95). Another installment of petty schemers and low-life banter for Higgins fans, but other readers will feel it takes far too long for the protagonist, a crooked used-car salesman, to get his comeuppance...
...party has lost nearly all of its authority and public trust and more than 10 percent of its two million members have turned in their cards in recent weeks...
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...slight problem with Trust, George V. Higgins' 20th book, is that Earl's task is simple. He pulls off the theft easily; for fairly complicated reasons, the intended victim wants the car to disappear. Unfortunately, Earl ignores the instructions to have the hot auto crushed in a trash compactor. He sells it instead, a characteristic act of greed that promises to get him in trouble. But Higgins seems much more interested in atmosphere than in denouement. There are long, long passages of the author's by now patented low-life banter, characters being long-winded and tedious about the banalities...
Ulam also refuted theories that Stalin actually trusted Hitler to hold up Germany's end of the treaty. "Any man who would have two brothers-in-law shot and his friends liquidated would not trust a man like Hitler," Ulam said...