Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...CITY OF CAMBRIDGE--all its leaders and all its people--have shown strength and character in their response to last Monday's sad outburst of violence at the city high school...
Such is the range of sentiment these days of those who really fought the last U.S. war, or so it seems in the creative mind of Novelist Josiah Bunting. The Compellas, Robertson and Lemming are fictional characters from Bunting's superb story of that sad war, The Lionheads, written in 1971. Last week, on the campus of Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia, where he is president, Bunting updated his characters and their concerns. In these odd times the novelist's eye may tell us more about our emotions than the purveyors of polls...
...book are fictional. His narrative, covering a 21-year span, captures the period with irony, authority and zest. Save for the delicious Daisy Newman, who used her loot to settle into suburban domesticity, virtually everyone who was directly or indirectly involved in the Edwardian caper came to a sad end, despite a noble battle by Sir Arthur Vicars to clear his name. Indeed, his cause became so famous that a relative of Vicars, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, offered at one point to join the fray. Alas, his offer was refused, and Sherlock Holmes moved on to lesser crimes...
...cover in his nation's embassy in Moscow. Pretty straight arrow this Munro, all the right schools, the right background, except for a short, passionate fling with a Russian beauty during the Berlin crisis. But she "slipped back into the East through the last uncompleted section in the Wall, sad and lonely and heartbroken--and very, very, beautiful." Never to be seen again. Suuuuure...