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...stops when the insurance man learns of a mysterious cult (the "Names" of the title). The ritual murders committed by these ragged, nomadic zealots are as easy as ABC. Their formula, revealed by Owen Brademas, an aged American anthropologist, is based on polyglot alphabets twisted into a system of worship. The killers simply match the initials of elderly or crippled villagers with those of towns. When the sacrificial names collide, their hammers fall. For Brademas, these deaths reveal a new layer of violence: "We thought we knew this setting. The mass killer in his furnished room, in his century, feeding...
Through Susan's ardent temperament and acerbic tongue, Hare has his say on the duplicities of politics, the hypocrisies of business and the corruptive universal worship of Mammon. When Susan enters a loveless match with a middle-level diplomat (Edward Herrmann), Hare seizes his chance to lay down a carnal barrage on a Foreign Office bureaucracy requiring 6,000 men to dismantle an empire that it took 600 men to govern...
...these were ever again questioned by their superiors. We did a lot of work on the Jerusalem paragraph. It referred to Jerusalem as the city of peace, holy to Judaism, Christianity and Islam, and stated that all persons would have free access to it, free exercise of worship and the right to visit and travel to the holy places without distinction or discrimination. We agreed that Jerusalem would never again be a divided city, that the holy places of each faith should be under the administration and full authority of their representatives, that a municipal council drawn from the inhabitants...
...convinced that he was a man of destiny. Deeply religious, he had asked that a special place be found for him to worship; we set aside the room where we had services when our family was at Camp David...
...more startling. Mynah birds scold in the trees; the children live in the Big House; their father is rich and respected; their mother is beautiful and indulged. Anna appears at one dance wearing a cape made from thousands of gardenias. Her children know that she is somewhat different and worship her for it: "She is not the kind who bandages cuts, Lily thought. She is not like other mothers, who make grocery lists and wear undergarments. Other mothers do not forget that you go back to school in September ..." They also suspect that she will not be with them...