Word: trustingness
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MEMORIES OF MIDNIGHT, by Sidney Sheldon (Morrow; 399 pages; $21.95), is one of a large and growing subgenre of evil-Greek-shipowner thrillers. Nasty fellows, those fictional Greek shipowners. This one, rich and loathsome Constantin Demiris, has arranged that his unfaithful mistress and her lover, Demiris' pilot, be executed for...
And in the eighties, he is doomed to fall apart. Throughout Rabbit at Rest, Updike contends that the eighties are all about disaster. In the opening pages, Updike categorizes the decade as a time of "Everything falling apart, airplanes, bridges, eight years under Reagan of nobody minding the store, making...
00001, 00002, 00003, 00004, 00005, 00006, 00007, 00008, 00009, 00010--According to statisticians, there is a 50 percent chance that one of these numbers is someone's authorized access code for the University's long distance phone system. Luckily, officials say that research shows students are unlikely to randomly try...
Oliver is enchanted by the owls' trusting ways, their grace and their attention to their young. He worries about their future, seemingly dependent as they are for both prey and nesting sites on old-growth forests. But Oliver and others have observed that it is not the age of the...
Lewis Percy yearns for the company of women. Too timid to expect them to love him, he aspires merely to their tolerance. Trusting and giving, guided by a "lasting conviction that women were a congenial and compassionate sex," he embarks on a quixotic quest for female companionship, only to experience...