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This biographer can hardly be blamed for the perverse effects of the Salinger case, i.e., the ability of an author who has not published a word since 1965 to squelch other words well into the litigious future. Nor is it Donaldson's fault that Susan Cheever's Home Before Dark scooped him by revealing her father's bisexuality. These handicaps are difficult but not necessarily ruinous. Unfortunately, John Cheever, which is certain to command wide attention because of its subject's fame, displays a range of self- inflicted weaknesses...
...come. Grudging attention must be paid by all those who value Cheever and his work. But devotees can also look forward to the scheduled publications later this year of the author's collected letters and previously uncollected stories. Cheever's waspish, beguiling voice has clearly not had its last word...
...successor, William Sessions, approved the investigation under the guidance of William Weld, then chief of the Justice Department's criminal division, and Deputy Attorney General Arnold Burns. Both officials resigned from their posts in late March, after maintaining that Attorney General Meese may have violated conflict-of- interest laws. Word of the inquiry was kept away from Meese until just before Burns left. The reason: their boss was mentioned in one taped conversation between suspects in the probe. Only after investigators were satisfied that Meese was not implicated did Burns brief the Attorney General...
...more than 300,000 on the outskirts of Pretoria. At Smith's request, not only was he about to become its white minister, but also he and his wife Ellen would be its sole white inhabitants. The Afrikaners, among whom Smith had spent his whole life, have a harsh word for behavior like that: Kwaardwilligverlating , meaning, literally, "malevolent parting." Says Smith: "It isn't just a divorce. It means you leave someone with the intention of destroying them. You become an enemy...
...only as pastor but also as school principal, ombudsman and civic planner. How, he prods a meeting of neighborhood residents, can we get more water pipes extended into the houses? When he walks his rounds through the back streets of Mamelodi, youngsters playing soccer call out the one word that is both recognition and greeting: "Smith! Smith...