Word: authored
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this secretive, brooding man is also spoken of as a hero and immortal because, some say, he carries 50 bullets in his body. Who fired them is not clear. More apparent is the author's intention to give a mythic nudge to a character whose life seems mundane and wearisome...
...absence of historical references, an active plot and sharp conflict, the novel is vulnerable to interpretation. Is Bartfuss a wandering Jew in, of all places, Zion? Is his folkloric deathlessness the author's way of saying that, even with their own nation, Jews are eternally restless and unsettled? Or is Bartfuss just suffering from post-Holocaust syndrome: a feeling of withdrawal and loneliness, and an inclination toward "morbid precision, excess awareness, complicated pain...
...Clemente beach as "That Crazy Old Lady," riding an orange-and-white boogie board and shouting surfing mantras. And Etta Kallman, 77, writing knowingly about "The Metabolism of the Dinosaur" and winning awards for academic excellence from New York University. And Jane Stovall, 103 next week, a onetime milliner, author, tango dancer and seniors golf champion and, at 89, a student pilot...
...personal sacrifices," says Dr. Carl Eisdorfer of the University of Miami. The support goes both ways. In fact private transfers of money and assets within families are just as likely, if not more likely to take place from old to young. "The traditional generosity of grandparents," says Author Lydia Bronte, formerly of the Carnegie Corporation, "now takes the form of helping with college tuition, down payment on a house, furniture -- not just a check every Christmas...
...money is omnipotent and can make everything all right: "Given the current expectations among an increasingly rich and fastidious clientele it is entirely plausible to imagine a dissatisfied traveler to Florida bringing a lawsuit against the sun." But tireless denials of the infinite efficacy of wealth ultimately cost the author his sense of humor, and he begins to manifest the mania he condemns, in looking-glass fashion. The "civil religion" of unbridled capitalism makes everything awful to him. Among his complaints: the plethora of soaps and deodorizing products available to U.S. consumers, the lamentable historical and geographic illiteracy of most...