Word: accidentals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Whether by design or accident, the timing of the snatch heightened the drama. It came on the seventh anniversary of the Congo's independence from Belgium. Rumors raced through Kinshasa that the Algerians were going to present Tshombe to them as an anniversary gift, and Mobutu sent a plane...
Reshaping the Landscape. More by accident than design, some university books turn into bestsellers. The Lonely Crowd, by Harvard Sociologist David Riesman, has sold more than a million copies since it was published by Yale in 1950; Chicago's Manual for the Writers of Term Papers, Theses and Dissertations...
Nina Stevens, as it happens, is not a partisan of Russia's equivalents to Rauschenberg or Julio Le Parc. Her preferences center around a group of Moscovites over 30 whose academic indoctrination was interrupted by World War II. They work as book illustrators or in publishing houses. Their paintings...
Quite by accident, they meet the last man on earth-an aged Adam, too feeble to father children. His prize possession is a windup Gramophone with one record, Roll Out the Barrel, a toy the girls covet. At his dwelling-the abandoned Hotel Ozone-the old lady enjoys one final...
This is a typically enigmatic bit of dialogue from Nicholas Mosley's recent thriller Accident, and it seems to apply even more to his new one, Assassins, which is half mystery, half "people knowing." During a top-level international conference, the motherless 14-year-old daughter of the British...