Word: ward
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...WARD JUST...
This built-in disparity may be unavoidable for a writer who insists on dealing at novel length with the highest levels of power. But by limiting his scope to 20 pages or so and by observing Washington at its fascinating upper-middle levels, Ward Just has been able to get his hands on substance that can be worked effectively into fiction. Just's settings are the private office of a moderately important Senator, a routinely luxurious Spring Valley living room, the featureless bachelor apartment of a CIA economist. In these and similar places, a little sex occurs, a little...
...there were some break in this monotony, things would not be quite so dismal. But only three of the children in the ward go to school, and that lasts less than two hours...
...clothes provided for the children are of a rough cotton fabric and they rarely fit the child who wears them. Oftentimes, there aren't enough clothes to go around for all the residents in the ward...
...case, Sally and I became friends as best as people in our circumstances possibly could. Although Sally did not live on the ward on which I worked, I would spend the best part of my day carrying her around with me. I did all I could to make her happy. She never failed to reciprocate...