Word: anecdota
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...intervals, the author lowers his fists, but much of the anecdota reconsiders a series of onetime celebrities, hacks and propagandists who have long since been swept into the dustbin of history -- with Hook handling the broom. He was performing those janitorial services at N.Y.U., when classes were shut down during a '60s antiwar protest. Hook was an early opponent of U.S. involvement in Viet Nam but characteristically went on teaching. At one session, he recalls, "three raucous S.D.S. students burst into the classroom, shouting 'Strike! Everyone out!' No one moved. I turned and shouted, 'I am placing you under...
...success and failure of American novelists is far too fascinating and complex a story to blame on their readers. Fortunately, Benson has been so diligent in gathering papers and anecdota that he escapes from his own simplifications. For there is indeed a special chaos to Steinbeck's life, even by the disorderly standards of the lives of American writers...
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