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Typically, he conjures a Lutheran or Presbyterian setting for his novels, and his enthusiasm for those particular creeds induces him, at moments of crisis in one plot after another, to plunk his guilty male culprit of a hero (Updike's heroes are almost always guilty males) down on a hardwood pew and to subject him to a vigorous Sunday sermon on biblical themes.
One's outrage over some disastrous contretemps is alleviated somewhat by the culprit's risible attempts to explain away the circumstances of his crime in pidgin.
These experts, notable among them Stephen M. Dickson of the Maine Department of Conservation and L. Kenneth Fink of the Darling Marine Center in Walpole, Maine, quickly fingered the culprit: the concrete sidewalk, erected some 75 years ago by an island benefactor--one Mr. Stanley of Steamer fame.
Also, although there is some mention of the role computerized trading played in the recent intense action, there's not much discussion of how such trading differs nowadays from say, the 1987 crash in which it was considered a prime culprit.
Will it also be the culprit in the EgyptAir crash?