Word: author
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...publishing Peter Stoler's biased antihunting essay, you and the author qualify for our "Crooked Shaft" award. This honor goes only to those who contribute significantly to perpetuating the contemporary myth that most hunters are bloodthirsty, hard-drinking, rough-talking, callous clods...
Norman Mailer's right hand doesn't always know what his famous left is doing. The truculent author of The Armies of the Night appeared in a Barnstable, Mass., courtroom last week to haggle over finances in the divorce proceedings brought against him by his fourth wife, Beverly. Mailer couldn't explain how he had frittered away several hundred thousand dollars. "My talent is to make money, not to manage it," he said. Beverly, who is asking for $1,000 a week alimony, has her own quirks, such as her temper. "We had 26 maids...
...finished, certain images and sensations became forever Conradian. Unlike his sedentary fellow writers, though, Conrad roamed widely in fact as well as fancy. His career as a young seaman took him to exotic places, and the cargo of perceptions he brought home sustained him as an aging author. His travels outward were then mirrored by his journey inward. Once, Conrad had chugged laboriously up the Congo River to reach the heart of darkness; later he realized that this destination could be reached much more rapidly. All that was needed was introspection...
THEN THERE ARE the fringe candidates. On the left, Michael Harrington, one of the founders and national chairman of the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee and author of The Other America (partly responsible for arousing the public consciousness of remaining widespread American poverty that led to Johnson's War on Poverty), almost ran. He decided he couldn't get up enough money to make it respectable or worth the time and effort, and didn't feel like going the Eugene Debs self-martyr route. Of course, there is Lyndon H. Larouche...
Four members of the Harvard Jewish Law Students' Association assisted Donna E. Artz, the petition's author, with the research. Four attorneys from the Greater Boston Lawyers Committee for Soviet Jewry, including Alan M. Dershowitz, professor of Law, provided technical advice, Artz said...