Word: watcher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wink is a recent widower and an inveterate girl watcher. The girl is Virginia Jackson, a witchingly lovely item who appears on a neighboring Darien. Conn, porch each morning in a shimmering blue robe to serve breakfast to her father, a bar-car contemporary of Wink's. She is just 22. and whether the twain can mate is the fulcrum of this wry comedy of commuterland. In establishing squatter's rights on the Peter De Vries-John Cheever territory. Author Roswell G. Ham Jr. (Fish Flying Through Air) is a trifle unsure of himself, but he has some...
...Watcher In the Shadows, Household...
...Watcher in the Shadows, Household...
Senator Kennedy's platform is a far more subtle, and far more interesting document. Inevitably, it contains the dreary platitudes, the extravagant promises, and the baseless accusations at the opposition that the tolerant convention watcher has learned to expect. It reflects at the same time something of which many of the delegates to Los Angeles may not entirely have been aware: the genuine dissatisfaction of their party's intellectuals with the torpor in their society...
...WATCHER IN THE SHADOWS, by Geoffrey Household (248 pp.; Atlantic-Little, Brown; $3.95), is one of those controlled British exercises in suspense in which the imminence of death seems as natural as the call of a thrush. An old manhunt expert, Author Household (Rogue Male, A Rough Shoot) this time offers a killer who stalks a zoologist, an Austrian antiNazi who served as a British agent in World War II. The zoologist lives as a contented, fortyish bachelor in a London suburb, but unfortunately for his bucolic peace of mind, he has spent some time in Buchenwald as a British...