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...National Council of Churches considers the Bible's male orientation a problem, the group should provide the reader not with false translations but with short, historical introductions on the social and cultural milieu in which the biblical writings originated...
...woman who exercises anything short of vigilance during her encounters with men is either dauntless or unaware; for as any newspaper reader knows, even policemen, doctors, priests, and fathers--society's protectors and healers--are not automatically exempt from the ranks of sexual abusers. Even some of Harvard's revered faculty members are not inherently above tormenting a student whom they happen to find attractive...
...monster ... I made my gaze as contemptuous as I could." It could have been the stuff of hard-boiled detective literature; instead it was the stuff of hard-boiled detective life: the life lived by Dashiell Hammett, creator of The Thin Man and The Maltese Falcon. A voracious reader of Henry James, before he switched to the school of hard knocks, Hammett wrote four novels in a single burst of creativity from 1927 to 1930. He found himself hailed by André Gide and André Malraux, and invited to work in Hollywood...
...what is seen and heard, good fiction has always taught us how to watch and listen. Larry Woiwode's "Firstborn" is the final story in the volume--by alphabetical quirk--and it is a fitting finale. In portraying the emotional schooling of his hero, Cnaries, Worwode educates the reader as well, and provides a natural jumping off point for the stories and collections to come. The death of his first boy in childbirth has clouded Charles's outlook, but he endures in the face of grave trials and doubts, and his blind obdurance is rewarded just as satisfyingly...
...unspoken rule in his third travel book, subtitled A Journey Around Great Britain. Here he loathes almost everything he sees and despises each new horror more than the one before. Since there is no reason to believe that he is wholly wrong in his judgments, he convinces the reader that to visit this wretched shore would be an act of lunacy...