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Another, although comparatively muted explosion gets the plot moving in Brown's fifth novel, Half a Heart (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 402 pages; $24). The year is 1986, and Miriam Vener, Jewish and in her mid-40s, lives in Houston with her ophthalmologist husband Barry and their three children. Amid the splendors of her gated community and rambling, expensive house, Miriam sports a troubled conscience, for she has another child, a half-black daughter whom she has not seen in nearly 18 years. Her husband knows about this chapter of her life, closed before he met her: the time during...
...lead to an international showdown over energy just as certainly as the Munich appeasement led to the second World War. When the energy shortage really hits, the classic basis for armed conflict will be established. Of what value to President Carter will his environmentalist constituency be then? Howard L. Vener Marblehead, Mass...
...King Edward came to the throne, and motors began to splutter in Piccadilly, and John's hands went on sliding into pockets. He thieved all through the four years of the first world war. Dictators rose to power and maps were altered overnight: but John, white-haired and vener able, was still standing with his itch ing fingers among the noise and bustle of the Strand...
...Poland in 1646 the Sisters of Charity were the first women ever to nurse the wounded on a battlefield. In 1655 Mme Le Gras wrote out the rule of her community, which has since been adopted by nearly every other active one. She died in 1660, was proclaimed "Vener- able" in 1895 and beatified with the title "Blessed" in 1920. With 40.000 members throughout the world the Sisters of Charity are the largest Roman Catholic order of active nuns. A lay community not administered by the Church, the Sisters renew their vows of chastity, poverty, obedience and service...
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