Word: abbott
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Kosinski on Abbott...
...connection with your review of Pinball, I would like to inform you that I have not "supported and later repudiated the parole of Convicted Murderer Jack Henry Abbott" [March 22]. As president of American PEN (1973-75), I corresponded with Mr. Abbott, who was part of PEN'S Prisoners Writing Program...
...doubtful that the parole board granted Jack Abbott his freedom strictly on the basis of his literary talent; presumably it also believed he would not pose any meaningful threat to society. Norman Mailer simply acted as an advocate, marshaling the facts and arguing them in favor of Abbott's release...
...Water" and the story of Convict-Celebrity Jack Henry Abbott portray the astonishing range of human character under stress. The man in the Potomac responded to unyielding nature with transcendent heroism. Abbott is accused of reacting to an indifferent society with random viciousness...
...belongs to this breed. After a 17-year absence in Hollywood, she returns to Broadway's Little Theater with a vehicle no sturdier than balsa wood, but she never lets the audience forget that she is driving it hell-bent on its voyage to nowhere. Author William Alfred, Abbott Lawrence Lowell professor of the humanities at Harvard, launched her on the road to stardom in his play Hogan's Goat, about political shenanigans among the Brooklyn Irish in the 1890s. Now back on the same turf, Alfred mounts a sentimental archaeological dig for nostalgic relics dating from...