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Some victims groups have carried their activity into courtrooms, trying to apply silent pressure on judges and juries by their stony presence. One such organization is led by a Houston socialite, Phyllis Morrow, 42, wife of a wealthy oilman. Her interest began in 1980 after she and her husband were robbed of $500,000 worth of jewelry. Her group also rates judges, advises victims on dealing with police and courts, and lobbies for laws to aid victims. Since the Goetz case, Morrow claims, "every legislator seems to want on the bandwagon to support a victims bill of rights...
NONFICTION: The Chief, Lance Morrow -- Citizen Hughes, Michael Drosnin -- Fathers Playing Catch with Sons, Donald Hall -- Henry James: Literary Criticism, edited by Leon Edel and Mark Wilson -- The Periodic Table, Primo Levi -- Up for Grabs, John Rothchild...
...York, he watches a beloved younger brother, "a form of sunlight," dying of cancer and turns away from the unbearable. Morrow also reaches forward, sometimes into the incalculable future, through his two sons. The elder goes to school with the Shah of Iran's son, and the author finds the boy "so like his father . . . all hauteur and vulnerabilty delicately balanced. The Shah and his son, my father and I, Jamie and I: I thought about the tenderness and the capacity for violence in the configurations...
...without touching: in the Roman Catholic Church, which he abandons and rejoins; in the attitudes of his doctors after Lance, a heavy smoker, suffers a heart attack at 36; in the jousting of police and demonstrators. The relationship that causes the greatest internal rift is the one between Hugh Morrow and Nelson Rockefeller. "No one does the words better than Hughie," Henry Kissinger remarks, as if "he were giving an endorsement to the pastry chef." Those words, Morrow acrimoniously notes, are what Rockefeller demands for 21 years, along with the deference of a talented man writing below his worth...
...this highly charged and total recall heals nothing, and Lance Morrow knows it. So he amplifies his theme with shrewd and tough-minded investigations of the nature of American power and of the collisions of class and generations. The Chief is an ambiguous title: it signifies an Indian- hunting ancestor and the man he pursued; it is also Hugh Morrow and his employer. And it is every father and the next generation. At the finale, the author asks his two-year-old son Justin, "What's new?" The child replies "with perfect accuracy, for him, 'Everything!' " Irony does not intrude...