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...airs and flowery talk. Here is Marlowe recalling a visit to a client: "I was neat, clean, shaved and sober, and I didn't care who knew it. I was everything the well-dressed private detective ought to be. I was calling on four million dollars." He and his kin are cynical, terse and masters of an amiably menacing tone that echoes the classic response to insult of Owen Wister's The Virginian: "When you call me that, smile...
...McNeelys had kin in Tucson, and Roy had always enjoyed Arizona, so he was delighted when a law-enforcement job opened up in nearby Tombstone. Tombstone had been around since 1877, when the discovery of silver deposits rushed it into being. Like so many other by now familiar Western mining towns, it had a brief population explosion, a flirt with naughty notoriety (in 1880 a good-hearted young local attorney made note of the fast life in the dance halls, saloons and casinos, then appended a letter home: "Still there is hope, for I know of two Bibles in town...
...faced exile to Siberia or worse. He further suggests that U.S. authorities offered them new identities, enabling the soldiers to go home, but not resume their old lives, if they would spy for the West. The offers went to devoted family men who would not imperil their kin. This poignant tale of one such impersonation provides a ground-level view of four dark decades, from the Stalinist '30s to the imperceptibly detentist...
...typified by her husband's annoying habits--his cautious driving, his nightly flossing routine before bed, his compulsion for organizing--she discovers she has become too tamed to overcome her dependency on familiar routines. Similarly, Rose returns from her honeymooon and comes straight back home, abandoning Julian, to her kin and the estabslihed shrine of domestic order to which she has long sacrificed any personal desires. While critical of women's traditional roles, Tyler attributes their pathos less to the forces of social oppression than to self-resigned defeat...
...some of the frustrated West German investigators that the clan bore no sense of shame or sorrow for Josef's wartime crimes. The lack of cooperation was a major drawback for the probers, since West German law does not require family members to aid in any investigation of their kin, no matter how distant the relationship...