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...robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking," as well as Balzac's "Behind every great fortune there is a crime" and Fred Allen's "A gentleman never strikes a lady with his hat on." There are quizzes: 1. Was Romeo a Capulet or a Montague? 2. Which Wright brother made the first flight at Kitty Hawk? 3. What word has six successive consonants? 4. How many countries does Brazil border?* And lists of products that need inventing, like a device that reminds the forgetful driver in the car ahead that he is still blinking for a turn...
...suggests a summing up or a retrospective, a big book that gathers the contents of earlier, slimmer ones. Such volumes tend to be tributes to writers and testaments to their careers rather than displays of new works or directions. And that would certainly appear to be the case with Wright Morris' Collected Stories, 1948-1986. Morris is, after all, one of the most distinguished and honored living American men of letters, author of 19 novels (including Love Among the Cannibals and The World in the Attic), five books of his own photographs and texts, four collections of essays and three...
...evidence presented here, there is no such thing as a typical Wright Morris story. Unlike contemporaries like John Cheever and Eudora Welty, Morris has not devoted the bulk of his attention to a particular social class or geographic area. His principal characters may be anything from janitors to college professors, and his settings range from Vienna to Brooklyn to Missouri to Northern California, with numerous points in between. The common thread in Morris' stories, both early and late, is an odd, intense vision of life after nearly all passion has been spent. Well into their marriages, husbands and wives coexist...
...briefing, in fact, led to an additional accusation against the Administration. On Thursday, Representative Jim Wright, who will become Speaker when the newly elected Congress meets, went to the White House to hear from National Security Adviser John Poindexter. Afterward the Texas Democrat told reporters that Iran had purchased 2,008 TOW antitank missiles and 235 "battery assemblies" for Hawk antiaircraft missiles from the U.S.; he later put the price at $12 million. The number of TOWs would be double the figure cited by a reporter at Reagan's news conference and not corrected by the President. The disclosure also...
...next morning, after a briefing by Casey and other Administration officials, Wright amplified his charge. He said that "other countries" besides Israel, or at least "citizens of other countries," had been shipping arms to Iran "with the complicity of the United States." If the briefers in fact said something like that, it would be difficult to reconcile with Reagan's post-news-conference statement that "any other shipments by third countries were not authorized by the U.S. Government...