Word: alan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner is one of the best short novels ever written because its author, Alan Sillitoe, has the rare gift of capturing working class life in simple, unromanticized prose. It's the story of an English youth in a reform school who purposely loses a cross-country match to be honest; he thought it would be immoral to win the challenge cup merely to please a vain warden--head-master. Sillitoe combines a vivid picture of the routine of lower class life using the loneliness of cross-country running to cultivate his protagonist's spiritual development...
...Alan Dershowitz, professor of Law, said there can be a "danger in reading too much into Supreme Court decisions." He added that the court may have decided to hear the case for a variety of reasons, including popular opinion...
...COUNTRY by Alan Bennett...
...spiritual setting of this spare new comedy by Alan Bennett, now at London's Queen's Theater, is England and the foibles of the English. Despite their exile, Hilary and Bron are more English than those who stayed behind. She shuffles around in hearty tweeds; he frets over the decline of Lyons Teahouses...
...Phantom caught on with the Papua New Guineans? Answers Alan Spanos, a former government nutritionist: "He succeeds here because his image strikes deep chords. He is big and strong and white, like the much-admired and envied Europeans. He is generous and fair and helps the weak, like the government in the colonial era. He has magical powers and is solitary and of mysterious origin, so he may well be really a returned ancestor...