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These marginalia dovetail with Anderson's more important work. A wide vein of moralism runs through much of his writing and his suddenly prominent persona. Though congenial and even gentle off the job, he adopts an almost snarling style in his frequent speechmaking and conveys rigid righteousness on paper. In his own mind he is a man with a mission; its imperatives are not to be denied. He calls himself a "watchdog on government" and says that he was "brought up with a sense of duty and a sense of outrage." He insists that the drinking or leching capers...
...year, Lynn lives in a handsome house in Sausalito overlooking San Francisco Bay. Her work makes home little more than a pied-à-terre. She flies all over California and sometimes beyond, doing sketches for malpractice or insurance cases, like a drawing showing how an accident destroyed the vein structure in a crushed foot. She recently flew to India to observe surgical methods there. Then she made the same sort of trip to Japan and managed to squeeze in a side visit to the Olympics. "I'd rather go off by my self," she says, "than drag along some...
...months that Joseph Wambaugh's first novel, The New Centurions, spent staked out on the bestseller list were perhaps less a tribute to the author's literary skill than to the authenticity of his material. Wambaugh was working a rich contemporary vein: the life of the Los Angeles police force, on which he served for more than a decade. Although Centurions brought him an official reprimand for failing to submit his manuscript for advance approval, Detective Sergeant Wambaugh is back with another police novel, turned out between tours of duty...
...same vein, on February 10 President Nixon acquiesced to Thieu's castigation of Secretary of State Rogers who had told a national gathering of newspaper editors and broadcasters on January 27 that the U.S. would be flexible on the timing of the Thieu resignation and the arrangements for organization of new presidential elections in South Vietnam. Nixon told newsmen, "We are not going to negotiate over the heads of our ally with our enemies to overthrow our ally...
...Wanderer," a flowing ballad with a haunting melody, like several of his other composition, shows the baroque influence. Ploss's "Lady Grey," however, is more in a jazz-blues vein...